[Reader-list] "Caste discrimination in Delhi University admissions" ( A Public Discussion on 19th August, Sunday )

[anoop kumar]

*Insight Foundation** *in collaboration with *Academic Forum for Social
Justice *invites you for a discussion on

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*"Caste discrimination in Delhi University admissions"*

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*Date: 19th August 2012 (Sunday)*

*Time: 9am to 1pm*

*Venue: Indian Social Institute, Lodhi Road, New Delhi*

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*Speakers*

*R.R. Bag* (Social Thinker)

*Amar Singh* (Secretary, DU SC/ST Employees' Association)

*Dr. Raj Kumar* (Assistant Professor, Dyal Singh College)

*Dr. Sukumar* (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pol. Science, DU)

*Dr. Kedar Mandal* (Assistant Professor, Dyal Singh College & President,
AFSJ)

*Dr. Hany Babu* (Associate Professor, DU & Secretary, AFSJ)

*Gurinder Azad* (Student Coordinator, Insight Foundation)

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Dear friends,

We all have seen the flawed way in which the University of Delhi has been
implementing the constitutional mandate of reservation for SC/ST/OBC
students. An RTI revealed that around 5400 seats belongs to reserve
category were transferred to general category candidates in 2010. Another
RTI shows that in 2011, more than 6000 seats reserved for SC/ST/OBC were
not filled by candidates from these categories.

At the same time, the admissions in "General Category" show an excess of
around 15,000 seats. Thus on the one hand, the University denies seats to
SC/ST/OBC, and, on the other, admits more than the sanctioned strength in
the General Category.

Over the last few years, many student organizations, teachers and activists
collectively have been raising their voices against this bias, while the
University shamelessly continues with its anti-reservation policies.
Several representations have been given to the University, several protest
marches have been organized, several meetings have been held with the
representatives from the University even in the presence of the Union
Minister for HRD, and Writ Petitions have been filed in the High Court and
Supreme Court.

Ever since the admission process started this year in June, many students'
and teachers' organizations have been engaged in a relentless struggle to
ensure the proper implementation of reservation in the University of Delhi.
However, the University and its constituent colleges have been distorting
rules and inventing new ways to deprive SC/ST/OBC students the opportunity
provided by the reservation policy.

It has also become evident that the admission procedure that the University
has devised for SC/ST students is highly discriminatory and denies them the
fundamental right of equality enshrined in the Constitution of India.

In the wake of all this, the Insight Foundation in collaboration with the
Academic Forum for Social Justice (an organization of the teachers of the
University which has been actively engaged in the struggle for proper
implementation of reservation at the University) is organizing a half day
seminar.

We invite all of you to participate in the discussion!

To know more on this issue please go through the following articles
published in Round Table India:


   -  *Mockery of Reservation at the University of
Delhi<http://roundtableindia.co.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5535:mockery-of-reservation-at-the-university-of-delhi&catid=119:feature&Itemid=132>
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   - and *Two glass system in a Central University: The unseen ways of
   caste discrimination<http://roundtableindia.co.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5427:two-glass-system-in-a-central-university-the-unseen-ways-of-caste-discrimination-&catid=119:feature&Itemid=132>
   *.

And also watch the following documentary:

 *A Conspiracy Against SC/ST/OBC Students in Delhi
University<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-b4bRYRo8E>
* produced bywww.neelkranti.com.



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