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

[Sudeep Ben]

Is there a report on the discussion?

Thanks
Sudeep

On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 6:06 PM, anoop kumar <anoopkheri at gmail.com> wrote:

> *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)*
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> *Time: 9am to 1pm*
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> *Venue: Indian Social Institute, Lodhi Road, New Delhi*
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> *~*
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> *Speakers*
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> *R.R. Bag* (Social Thinker)
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> *Amar Singh* (Secretary, DU SC/ST Employees' Association)
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> *Dr. Raj Kumar* (Assistant Professor, Dyal Singh College)
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> *Dr. Sukumar* (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pol. Science, DU)
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> *Dr. Kedar Mandal* (Assistant Professor, Dyal Singh College & President,
> AFSJ)
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> *Dr. Hany Babu* (Associate Professor, DU & Secretary, AFSJ)
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> *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:
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>
>    -  *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>
>    *
>    - 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:
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>  *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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