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BANGALORE: The former Union Minister, Chandrajit Yadav, has urged the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government to promulgate an Ordinance to regulate admissions and fees in all the professional colleges in the country and not to leave the issue to the judiciary for a solution. Speaking to presspersons here on Tuesday, Mr. Yadav and the former Chairman of the Karnataka Backward Classes Commission, Ravivarma Kumar, said that because of conflicting judgments, the professional colleges were thriving by exploiting the people. The weaker sections were being denied access to education because of the exorbitant fees. Hailing the State experiment as a model, Mr. Yadav said around 20,000 students from the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and backward classes secured admission in professional colleges and the system had worked satisfactorily. Mr. Yadav, who earlier participated in a meeting of the Social Justice Movement in Chennai, said the participants had urged the Centre to earmark 80 per cent of the budgetary allocation for improving the standard of life of the weaker sections. The other demands were 27.5 per cent reservation for other backward class students at all levels on the basis of minimum marks; reservation at all levels, including judiciary and the Election Commission and in both the government and private sectors; free healthcare scheme; land reforms and distribution of surplus land to the weaker sections; and 30 per cent reservation for women hailing from weaker sections.
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