<p class="title">The HRD Ministry has called for a "foolproof" system to prevent recurrence of issues like the ongoing standoff between the JNU administration and students over the hostel fee hike, according to officials.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The ministry has also asked the university to sympathetically consider and give a relaxation of two weeks to make up for the lost academic period.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Jawaharlal Nehru University students boycotted exams on Thursday over the hostel fee hike issue, but students of the School of Sanskrit and Indic Studies (SSIS) appeared for their papers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The ministry has emphasised that not only shall the campus return to normalcy but a foolproof system shall be put in place for non-recurrence of such issues in the future," a senior HRD Ministry official said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We have stressed in our meetings with all the stakeholders in JNU that they should adopt a flexible approach in order to find a satisfactory solution and end the confrontationist situation prevailing in the campus since the last month or more," the official said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The HRD Ministry held a series of talks with the university administration and the students' union and offered to remove service and utility charges. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The institution has been seeing protests for over a month over the hostel fee hike issue and even though the university has twice offered partial rollbacks, the students have refused to accept them.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The ministry last month set up a three-member committee to recommend ways to restore normalcy in JNU and mediate between students and university administration. The panel has submitted its report but the ministry is yet to take a call on it.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The ministry last week asked the high-powered committee to compare the hostel fee structure of JNU, after the second rollback, with other central universities.</p>.<p class="bodytext">HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' informed the Lok Sabha on Monday the government has not directed any central university to increase fees.</p>.<p class="bodytext">His comment came on a day the police lathi-charged JNU students when they tried to march to the Rashtrapati Bhavan to meet the president and urge him to ensure the hike in hostel fee is completely rolled back.</p>
<p class="title">The HRD Ministry has called for a "foolproof" system to prevent recurrence of issues like the ongoing standoff between the JNU administration and students over the hostel fee hike, according to officials.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The ministry has also asked the university to sympathetically consider and give a relaxation of two weeks to make up for the lost academic period.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Jawaharlal Nehru University students boycotted exams on Thursday over the hostel fee hike issue, but students of the School of Sanskrit and Indic Studies (SSIS) appeared for their papers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The ministry has emphasised that not only shall the campus return to normalcy but a foolproof system shall be put in place for non-recurrence of such issues in the future," a senior HRD Ministry official said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We have stressed in our meetings with all the stakeholders in JNU that they should adopt a flexible approach in order to find a satisfactory solution and end the confrontationist situation prevailing in the campus since the last month or more," the official said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The HRD Ministry held a series of talks with the university administration and the students' union and offered to remove service and utility charges. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The institution has been seeing protests for over a month over the hostel fee hike issue and even though the university has twice offered partial rollbacks, the students have refused to accept them.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The ministry last month set up a three-member committee to recommend ways to restore normalcy in JNU and mediate between students and university administration. The panel has submitted its report but the ministry is yet to take a call on it.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The ministry last week asked the high-powered committee to compare the hostel fee structure of JNU, after the second rollback, with other central universities.</p>.<p class="bodytext">HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' informed the Lok Sabha on Monday the government has not directed any central university to increase fees.</p>.<p class="bodytext">His comment came on a day the police lathi-charged JNU students when they tried to march to the Rashtrapati Bhavan to meet the president and urge him to ensure the hike in hostel fee is completely rolled back.</p>