DU admission process challenged by SC/ST students

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".

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.

 

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