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JNU students plan fresh stir

NEW DELHI: A section of Jawaharlal Nehru University students has said they would launch a fresh agitation if the authorities do not implement the September 7 Delhi High Court verdict that criticised the varsity's reservation policy for the Other Backward Classes. The students have been agitating against the same since 2008 academic year.

The Delhi High Court had termed the JNU's OBC reservation policy as “contrary to the concept of reservation” and “illusory” and asked the university to admit two petitioners who had been denied admission within one week of their complying with requisite formalities.

The two petitioners had gone to the Court on the ground that the university had applied cut-off norms contrary to the Human Resources Development Ministry guidelines and denied them admission.

Students affiliated to the All-India Students Association (AISA) said the Court's verdict was “historic and far-reaching”. They said the University should now admit over 300 OBC students who were denied admission this year and over 200 others in the past two years.

They claimed that following a student demonstration on September 13 demanding implementation of the Court verdict, the JNU administration had “agreed in principle that JNU would admit the OBC students who did not make the earlier cut-off criteria”.

The JNU administration said it has begun moves to admit one of the two petitioners. The administration said it will not apply the verdict to all the OBC students who did not get admission this year because the verdict has now been challenged in the Supreme Court.

The matter is coming up for hearing in the Supreme Court on September 27.

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