Delhi University admission policy challenged by SC/ST students
The Delhi University was on 24th July directed by the Delhi High Court to respond to a plea challenging the University’s admission process for under-graduate courses for Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) students this academic year.
The petitioners alleged the University has failed to follow an uniform procedure for admission of SC/ST students and general category students for under-graduate courses.
“While the general candidates could register using the online facility from anywhere in India, SC/ST candidates had to come physically to Delhi with all their original certificates to even obtain the registration form. This prevented a lot of outstation SC/ST candidates from applying to the University,” the petitioner said.
The petitioners further alleged the students of general category were allowed to register for all or any of the courses and colleges SC/ST candidates were not.
The petitioners contend the University has adopted one procedure for general category and OBC students but SC/ST candidates were treated differently.
Issuing notices to DU and the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Justice G S Sistani sought their responses by October 11 on a petition filed by a group of students alleging DU’s admission policy for SC/ST students was “discriminatory”.
With regard to the University’s Information Bulletin, the petitioners said “while a 70-page Information Bulletin printed in colour with a personal message from the Vice-Chancellor and lot of useful information like the last year’s cutoff marks, information about Grievance and Placement Cell, a detailed city map locating the colleges were given to the General Candidates, SC/ST candidates were given a shoddily-printed eight-page Bulletin without necessary informations.”
“This discriminatory procedure for admission is only applicable to SC/ST and not to OBC, although both SC/ST and OBC are governed by the same Act, namely the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Act 2006,” the petition also said.
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