[Reader-list] Protest against Caste Discrimination in Educational Institutions on 19th October at 11:30 am ( Jantar Mantar, New Delhi)

[anoop kumar]

*Protest against Caste Discrimination in Educational Institutions***



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*• Date: 19th October, 2012 (Friday)

• Time: 11:30 am

• Venue: Jantar Mantar, New Delhi*


  *“ The Commission [NCSC] should initiate Legal action, including the
> suspension from** job, permissible under the law, including the
> prevention of Atrocities Against the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled
> Tribes,1989, against **Dr. V.K. Sharma ,former Principal ; Dr. Shobha Das,
> HoD of Physiology; Dr.** **Jayashree Bhattachrjee, the present principal;
> and Dr. Raj Kapoor,** Professor of Physiology and a Liaison Officer for
> resorting to caste based discrimination and neglecting of the duties
> assigned to them, not by omission, but by commissions”***
>


> ***[Prof Mungekar Committee Report on caste discrimination in Vardhman
> Mahavir Medical College, Delhi, Page 18]   *
>

Dear Friends,



We all are aware of how the educational institutions have been
discriminating the reserved category students, deliberately failing them in
different subjects for years together. In recent past many such cases have
been in highlight due to the strong resistance shown by the students
against such discriminatory practices in their institutions like AIIMS,
Vardhman Mahavir Medical College, MAMC, KGMC (Lucknow), IITs, JNU etc.



In all such cases, it is seen that most of the times our students are being
repeatedly failed by just 1 or 2 marks  in some specific subjects for years
and thus breaking their morale and branding them as “inferior”/ “incapable”
forever.


  It is very shocking that whenever the examination was conducted either
under the supervision of the court or through any other external sources
,the same set of failed students performed well and were able to clear
their exams. The recent example is from Vardhman Mahavir Medical College
where many reserved category students were repeatedly failing for last 6 to
7 years in the same subject but when the exam was conducted under close
supervision of Delhi High Court, surprisingly, all passed!


 The Government of India has conducted many inquiries on these issues and
each time these inquiries have revealed the extent of blatant caste
discrimination prevalent in these institutions. But none of the
recommendations given by the inquiry committees have ever been implemented
or guilty punished.  This has brought no justice to our students and caste
discrimination still goes unabated in these institutions.


On 6th September, 2012, Prof Mungekar Committee, appointed by the National
Commission of Scheduled Caste (NCSC), after an year-long investigation came
out with a report, very clearly indicting the Vardhman Mahavir Medical
College administration of discriminating students from the reserved
category. The report even named the faculties guilty of such act and has
recommended strong legal action against these. However till now no action
has been taken and the students are still being harassed by the
administration.


Therefore, we demand the National Commission of Scheduled Caste and the
Indian government to immediately initiate legal actions and lodge criminal
case against the names listed in the report and provide justice to the
students.


*It is time that the student bodies across the country stand** united and
pledge for discrimination free campuses.*

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*Dr.Ajay Kumar Singh (Progressive Medicos Forum)
                                Anoop Kumar (Insight Foundation)*

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