The minority institution status of the AMU and Jamia Millia has been challenged in the Supreme Court and the BJP government at the Centre has opposed the tag.
Unless the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) submits documents to prove its minority status by August, it will be ordered by the National Commission for Scheduled Castes to implement the reservation policy, as required by all central universities, the Indian Express reported on Friday.
Panel chairperson Ram Shankar Katheria, who is also a BJP MP from Agra confirmed the same. “This is not Pakistan, the university has to follow the rules,” he said.
Katheria said that the HRD Ministry, UGC and the National Commission for Minorities have confirmed that the AMU does not enjoy minority status. In 2016, the central government approached the Supreme Court, stating the AMU is not a minority institution, and the matter is pending.
The minority institution status of the AMU and Jamia Millia has been challenged in the Supreme Court and the BJP government at the Centre has opposed the tag.
Katharia has, however, claimed that during his meeting with AMU authorities on July 3, the registrar and vice-chancellor were unable to provide any documents to prove the university’s minority status.
The university has around 30,000 students and 15 per cent of these seats should have gone to SC students and 7.5 per cent to STs. If AMU fails to provide the documents, it will have to admit 4,500 Dalit students and 2,250 tribal students.
Article 30(1) of the Constitution gives all religious and linguistic minorities the right to set up and run educational institutions, including schools, colleges and universities. This was presumably done to assure minorities of being able to maintain and propagate their unique and special educational aspects. The law guarantees that governments will not discriminate in giving aid on the basis of their being ‘minority’ institutions, thus sealing in a commitment by the Government of India to allow minorities to flourish.
However, AMU was given national status in the 1950s.
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