'If the written commitment will not come by Aug 15, we will give a call for boycott of the official Independence Day function and hold a parallel function of our own at Jammu University campus,' Sethi said.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has supported the Monday shutdown and other agitational programmes of the CUAS.

After the union government announced that a central university will be established in Jammu and Kashmir, the state government had identified a place close to Samba, 40 km from here, for the site of the institution.

But later, there was a proposal to shift it to the Kashmir Valley, triggering a series of demonstrations here by student groups.