Since the Supreme Court rejected the Special Leave Petition (SLP) filed by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, in accordance with the order issued by the Allahabad High Court of calculating faculty positions in higher education institutes department-wise instead of calculating on the basis of total posts vacant, the HRD Ministry was left with nothing but filing a review petition for getting the order approved by the Supreme Court.
With this, they decided to file a review petition, for which the Ministry will soon ask the Attorney General to draft the review petition.
The SLP was rejected by the Supreme court judges namely U U Lalit and Indira Banerjee, which challenged the Allahabad High Court order, the SLP was filed after the continued agitation against the UGC order stating calculation of the faculty posts in universities and colleges will be on the basis of departments instead of on the basis of vacant posts.
A Cabinet proposal for restoring UGC guidelines, backed by HRD Ministry and Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry is yet to be approved.
A source said, “The Bill to restore original clauses 6 and 8 of the UGC guidelines has been pending Cabinet approval for many months. It will ensure that the university as a whole, and not the department or a specific faculty post, is treated as a unit for implementing reservations. This would greatly increase the chances of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes (OBC) candidates getting their due share. However, it’s a political call the government has to take.”
Against the UGC faculty post issue, thousands of people will conduct the protest marches on Thursday in collaboration with Dalits, Adivasi, and OBC’s.
While attending the meeting with the several Bahujan activists under the slogan of National Convention on Social Justice this week, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav said, “All opposition parties should come on one platform to save the Constitution.”
Former OBC Commission chairperson Justice V Eshwaraiah said, “EWS reservation has shaken the very foundation of the Constitution. The BJP-led government wants to turn this into a Hindu Raj and remove the word secular. If we don’t stop this there will be a civil war in India.”