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Fri, Jun 15 DU's minority report By IE Thursday June 14, 11:41 PM St Stephen's College, one of the most reputed colleges affiliated to the Delhi University, decided on a new admission policy this week for the academic session 2007-2008. The new policy will cut down on student intake in the general category to 40% . The college will further reserve 40% of its seats for students from the Christian community out of which 25% or ten per cent of the total number of seats will be reserved for Dalit Christians. The argument for bringing about the new policy was that the college wanted to "preserve its minority character". Newsline looks at a few other "minority colleges" affiliated to the Delhi University SRI VENKATESWARA COLLEGE Founded by Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams Trust in 1961, the primary objective of the college was to cater to the educational needs of the students from South India. The college was founded by former President Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. Location: Dhaula Kuan Status: This aided college is a linguistic minority institution from Andhra Pradesh but it has not claimed any minority status under any category. The college has been observing all the constitutional obligations towards fulfillment of the reservations extended under SC/ST, physically challenged, children of war victims categories as stipulated by DU. The only reservation is made in BA pass courses offered by the college where six seats are reserved for students who have studied Telugu, Tamil or Sanskrit upto class X or XII. There is no other relaxation offered by the college. Principal Dr A Sankara Reddy: "At this point of time, we will continue to be as we are. In fact, we are happy with what we are now, with students from all categories studying at the college. But we don't know the future. But whatever we do, we will try to help people genuinely. We don't want to follow anyone's example." JESUS AND MARY COLLEGE The college was founded by the Congregation of the Religions of Jesus and Mary in 1968. Location: Chanakyapuri Status: An aided college, the college reserves 50 per cent of its seats for various categories, including Christians, SC/STs, and Sports. There is also a provision of ten per cent relaxation in cut-offs to the reserved categories. KHALSA COLLEGE The college was set up by Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee in 1973 to cater to the needs of students from the Sikh community. Location: North Campus Status: A minority institution, Khalsa College reserves upto 40 per cent of its seats for Sikh students. 22.5 per cent seats are also reserved for SC/STs apart from 5 per cent sports quota. It gets 95 per cent of grants from DU and 5 per cent from its management which is under the Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee. The college also grants 5-10 per cent relaxation in cut-offs to Sikh students. Principal Dr Harmeet Singh: "Any change in admission policy will have to be made by the college management. However, we would like to keep our college as secular as possible. We don't feel any immediate need to make any changes in our policy."
