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Alter process of quota admission, HC tells JNU Express News Service Posted online: Wed Sep 08 2010, 03:57 hrs New Delhi : The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the administration of the Jawaharlal Nehru University to change the way it admits students under quota, ordering that two petitioners before it be admitted after calculating the eligibility criteria differently. Two students from the OBC category, Apurva and Usham Rojio Singh, had approached the High Court after they failed to secure admission this academic year. Both argued they could not get admission because of the way JNU had designed its admission procedure. The court has asked the university to scrap the cut-off marks as it is being defined at present. JNU will have to prepare a separate OBC list and fill the 27 per cent reserved seats with students who pass the entrance test. While the HC order will affect only the petitioners, students are planning to use it to renew their agitation against the university’s model of admitting OBC students. The All India Students’ Association will hold a march on campus on Wednesday, asking the administration for a re-look at the way OBC students were admitted this year. “A lot more students have been kept out by the way JNU has admitted students this year. We want the university to remedy that,” said Sucheta De, JNU secretary of the AISA. Newsline had reported Monday that JNU had succeeded in filling only 15.9 per cent of its 27 per cent OBC reservation quota this year. Like last year, when the university succeeded in filling only 14.2 per cent of the total 18 per cent OBC reservation, the shortfall was caused not because eligible candidates were not available. JNU to negotiate with SG on student polls A general body meeting at the Jawaharlal Nehru University late on Monday resolved to negotiate with the Solicitor General (SG) of India to allow the university to conduct the students’ union elections. The resolution, supported by most student organisations, talks of obtaining maximum relaxations till the case in the Supreme Court is settled. The task of negotiating with the SG rests with the Joint Struggle Committee of the University, which is fighting the case on behalf of the students. “We have not got an appointment with the SG yet. The points we will be debating on have not been decided yet. Whatever we do, we will do it without changing the fundamental nature of the JNUSU constitution,” said Sandeep Singh, former JNUSU president. A resolution was also passed on holding elections to the Academic Council, Boards of Studies and the Gender Sensitisation Committee Against Sexual Harassment. ------------------------------------ ---- INFORMATION OVERLOAD? Get all ZESTCaste mails sent out in a span of 24 hours in a single mail. Subscribe to the daily digest version by sending a blank mail to zestmedia-dig...@yahoogroups.com, OR, if you have a Yahoo! Id, change your settings at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/join/ PARTICIPATE:- On this list you can share caste news, discuss caste issues and network with like-minded anti-caste people from across India and the world. Just write to zestcaste@yahoogroups.com TELL FRIENDS TO SIGN UP:- If you got this mail as a forward, subscribe to ZESTCaste by sending a blank mail to zestcaste-subscr...@yahoogroups.com OR, if you have a Yahoo! ID, by visiting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/join/ Also have a look at our sister list, ZESTMedia: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: zestcaste-dig...@yahoogroups.com zestcaste-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: zestcaste-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/