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DU Sikh colleges challenge quota
WSN Bureau
NEW DELHI:
A group
of minority colleges under Delhi University (DU) have approached the
High Court seeking exemption from giving reservation to students
from Other Backward Classes (OBC). The colleges run by Delhi Sikh
Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC), a body constituted under the
Delhi Sikh Gurdwaras Act, contended that the reservation policy was
not applicable to their institutions in view of a recent Supreme
Court judgement. The apex court has held that the Minority
Educational Institutions (MEI), whether they are aided and unaided,
are exempted from OBC reservation, the colleges said in their
petition.
Issuing notice
to the Centre,
Delhi
University
and the University Grant Commission (UGC), Justice Rajiv Shakdher
sought their response by September 25 on the petition filed by the
colleges - Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa, Guru Gobind Singh, Mata Sundri
for women and Guru Nanak Dev PG DAV.
Appearing for
the colleges, senior lawyer K T S Tulsi submitted that the
reservation policy was not only contrary to the Constitution of
India but also against the Central Educational Institutions
(Reservation in Admissions) Act 2006. Tulsi asked the court to quash
the Delhi University’s direction for implementation of reservation
policy as it was not applicable on the minority institutions.
Claiming that the minority status enjoyed by the colleges was given
by the National Commission for Minority Educational Institution, the
counsel said “The UGC and DU cannot direct the MEIs established by
DSGMC to implement the reservation policy in the matters of filing
up of teaching posts and admissions."
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July, 2008
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