We appeal to people of all our world, please send below letter to MP's of India
Subject: The Scheduled Castes and
Scheduled Tribes (Reservation in Posts and Services) Bill 2008- An attempt to
debar the SC/ST community from higher education.
Respected
Sir/Madam,
With reference to above mentioned
subject, we people of India
would like to bring the following facts in your kind notice for necessary and
immediate action:
As you are aware that SC/ST
representation in teaching posts in the Central
Universities, IITs, IIMs, NITs
and other Institutes of higher education is negligible even after 62 years
of independence of India.
First time in the year 2005, the Govt. of India, MHRD vide their order No.
6-30/2005 U-5 dated 6th
December, 2005 has directed the UGC to implement the SC/ST
reservation on teaching posts in Central
Universities and Institutes
which are deemed to be Universities receiving grants from Govt. of India.
Consequently, the UGC directed all the Central
Universities and other
Institutes to implement the SC/ST reservation on all the teaching posts
such as Lecturer, Reader and
Professor and by whatever other nomenclature the posts are known.
The policy guidelines
mentioned in Para 1 above are in infant stage and
being formulated to implement by the Central Universities. In the same
time the Govt. of India is going to pass ‘The Scheduled Castes and
Scheduled Tribes (Reservation in Posts
and Services) Bill 2008’ in the Parliament, whose only objective is to
exclude the SC/ST community from the premier and resourceful institutes of
higher education in the country.
The most disappointing parts
of the above said bill are clause (iii) and clause (iv) of subsection (1)
of section 4 according to which there is no reservation to posts higher
than the lowest grade of group
‘A’ posts and classified as scientific and technical post; and to posts
higher than the lowest grade of group ‘A’ posts in institutions of
national importance and Indian Institutes of Management specified in the
Schedule. It means that there will be no SC/ST teacher in Central
Universities, IITs NITs etc. (total 47 educational institutes in Schedule
at
present and more can be added). Therefore, section (4) of the bill is
against to the existing reservation policy mentioned in Para
1 above and that will result in bad to worse condition of SC/ST community
in higher education.
The Banaras
Hindu University
itself has around 2300 teaching posts. As an average all the 47 institutes
mentioned in the Schedule have twenty three thousand and five hundred
(47×500 = 23500) teaching posts and as per the recommendations of Sixth
Pay commission, all of them are above the lowest grade of group ‘A’. Thus
around 5287 posts, out of which many could be filled by the SC/ST
candidates, are being exempted from the preview of reservation.
It is worth to mention
that there is no representation of the members of SC/ST community in the
Executive Boards and Selection Committees constituted for the recruitment
of teachers in higher educational institutes. History is evident that the
candidates belonging to SC/ST category were ignored by the selection
committees when they apply under general category. Further, due to
negligible representation of SC/ST candidates on teaching posts, the SC/ST
students face lot of difficulties in completing their projects and Ph.D.
etc; and welfare scheme for SC/ST students do not run successfully in the
Central
Universities and
IITs.
In the present bill,
nothing has been mentioned about the ban on de-reservation and panel
action against the defaulter
officers. Moreover, in this bill all the existing provisions for SC/ST
reservation on teaching posts in Central Universities and other Higher
Educational Institutes mentioned in Para 1 above have been weaken.
Therefore, section (4) of this bill is more or less a ban to enter the
SC/ST candidates into the higher education.
In the light of the present
form of this bill, the objective of the reservation can never be met and
this will loose the confidence of SC/ST community. A lot of deliberations
are
required on this bill and Section (4) along with Schedule of the bill is
absolutely not required.
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You are therefore, humbly requested for the
following necessary action in the matter:
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Remove the Section 4 with Schedule of the bill
with.
Include appropriate provision in the bill to
stop caste based discrimination with the SC/ST candidates during the interviews
for selection.
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With
kind regards.
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(Subhash C. Arya)
