PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2011 ID-28863
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18.8.11 .
HISTORIC VICTORY FOR OBC RESERVATIONS: .
Today SC Finally Declares Cut-off to be defined as Minimum Eligibility, Removes Central Road Block for Non-fulfilment of OBC Seats! .
Verdict Vindicates the Position that AISA Had Been Painstakingly Arguing Against All .
Opposition for the Last 3 Years .
AISA hails todays historic Supreme Court judgement on the cut-off criterion for OBC reservations. The Supreme Court bench comprising Justices Raveendran and Patnaik today clarified that cut-off is synonymous with minimum eligibility, and the relaxation in cut-off for OBC candidates is to be calculated from the minimum eligibility mark, and not from the mark obtained by the last general category candidate to secure admission. Dismissing the appeal by the YFE and PV Indiresan against the Delhi HC verdict of 7 September 2010, the SC Bench upheld the Delhi HC verdict and ordered all universities .
and colleges which are in the midst of their admission process must make all necessary corrections, define eligibility marks as cut-off, and fulfil OBC reservations accordingly by 31 August. .
This verdict is a vindication of the struggle that was begun by the AISA-led JNUSU three years ago. In 2008, the JNU Administration, in order to subvert OBC reservations, wrongly interpreted cut-off as the marks obtained by the last general category student to secure admission, rather than as minimum eligibility marks. The 10 % relaxation for OBC students was calculated from this distorted benchmark; as a result OBC quota remained unfulfilled and most OBC seats converted to general category seats. Even other universities like DU and Allahabad University adopted this clever casteist device created by JNU, in order to ensure non-fulfilment of OBC quota and diversion of OBC seats. .
Right from the start, when JNU announced its 2008 OBC admission policy itself, AISA alerted everyone that this method of fixing cut-offs was flawed and would never allow OBC seats to be filled. AISA waged a sustained struggle against this wrong definition of cut-off, using admission data obtained through RTIs to prove the validity of our argument. In the three years that followed, AISA launched a sustained campaign and struggle to rectify the distorted implementation of OBC quotas in JNU and elsewhere. From 2008 uptil the JNU AC meet in March 2010, all other organizations in JNU ran a vitriolic campaign against AISA on this question, and refused to accept our point about the false definition of cut-off, or participate in a single protest programme or public meeting! Only many JNU teachers saw our point, supported the campaign and took bold positions in various forums like the AC or Deans Committee. Despite this hostility, AISA conducted a lone battle for correct implementation of OBC quota. .
Eventually, in 2010, our stance was vindicated by the Delhi High Court in a landmark verdict. Infact, the SFI was so upset by the Delhi HCs vindication of AISAs position that they could not even welcome the verdict for 48 hours! .
YFE however understood the importance of the HC verdict and the verdicts power to stop the YFEs ploy to subvert and deny OBC reservations, and so YFE filed an SLP (special leave petition) challenging the HC verdict in the Supreme Courtin Sep 2010. Todays verdict finally vanquished the anti-reservation forces even in the Supreme Court, which firmly upheld that cut-off and minimum eligibility were one and the same thing. .
The episode also exposed the double standards of the Congress-UPA Central government on the question of OBC reservations. In the course of the struggle, we repeatedly approached the HRD Ministry and Social Justice Ministry, asking them to step in and settle the matter by clarifying how their own law on OBC reservations was to be interpreted. Not only did the Central Government fail to do so. In fact during the JNU case in the Delhi HC, the Counsel for Central Government actually argued in support of the JNU Administration and YFE advocates, arguing against our (correct) interpretation of cut-off marks. It was only after the Delhi HC verdict vindicated AISAs 3-year long struggle that the Central Government changed its posture. .
It is indeed a moment of celebration for all those who stand by social justice and the constitutional rights of deprived sections of society to reservations. The whole struggle has exposed how anti-reservationists occupying high positions inside JNU administration tried to subvert OBC reservations by hook or by crook and today, the sustained struggle of the JNU community, including students as well as progressive teachers, against these ploys, has won a huge victory in the shape of the SC verdict. .
We appeal to all JNU students and organizations who stand by social justice to join a massive .
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United Victory Procession from Ganga Dhaba, 9.30 pm tonight (18 August) .
Abhishek Kr. Yadav, Vice- President., AISA, JNU Sucheta, Gen. Secy, AISA, JNU .
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PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2011 ID-28863
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18.8.11 .
HISTORIC VICTORY FOR OBC RESERVATIONS: .
Today SC Finally Declares Cut-off to be defined as Minimum Eligibility, Removes Central Road Block for Non-fulfilment of OBC Seats! .
Verdict Vindicates the Position that AISA Had Been Painstakingly Arguing Against All .
Opposition for the Last 3 Years .
AISA hails todays historic Supreme Court judgement on the cut-off criterion for OBC reservations. The Supreme Court bench comprising Justices Raveendran and Patnaik today clarified that cut-off is synonymous with minimum eligibility, and the relaxation in cut-off for OBC candidates is to be calculated from the minimum eligibility mark, and not from the mark obtained by the last general category candidate to secure admission. Dismissing the appeal by the YFE and PV Indiresan against the Delhi HC verdict of 7 September 2010, the SC Bench upheld the Delhi HC verdict and ordered all universities .
and colleges which are in the midst of their admission process must make all necessary corrections, define eligibility marks as cut-off, and fulfil OBC reservations accordingly by 31 August. .
This verdict is a vindication of the struggle that was begun by the AISA-led JNUSU three years ago. In 2008, the JNU Administration, in order to subvert OBC reservations, wrongly interpreted cut-off as the marks obtained by the last general category student to secure admission, rather than as minimum eligibility marks. The 10 % relaxation for OBC students was calculated from this distorted benchmark; as a result OBC quota remained unfulfilled and most OBC seats converted to general category seats. Even other universities like DU and Allahabad University adopted this clever casteist device created by JNU, in order to ensure non-fulfilment of OBC quota and diversion of OBC seats. .
Right from the start, when JNU announced its 2008 OBC admission policy itself, AISA alerted everyone that this method of fixing cut-offs was flawed and would never allow OBC seats to be filled. AISA waged a sustained struggle against this wrong definition of cut-off, using admission data obtained through RTIs to prove the validity of our argument. In the three years that followed, AISA launched a sustained campaign and struggle to rectify the distorted implementation of OBC quotas in JNU and elsewhere. From 2008 uptil the JNU AC meet in March 2010, all other organizations in JNU ran a vitriolic campaign against AISA on this question, and refused to accept our point about the false definition of cut-off, or participate in a single protest programme or public meeting! Only many JNU teachers saw our point, supported the campaign and took bold positions in various forums like the AC or Deans Committee. Despite this hostility, AISA conducted a lone battle for correct implementation of OBC quota. .
Eventually, in 2010, our stance was vindicated by the Delhi High Court in a landmark verdict. Infact, the SFI was so upset by the Delhi HCs vindication of AISAs position that they could not even welcome the verdict for 48 hours! .
YFE however understood the importance of the HC verdict and the verdicts power to stop the YFEs ploy to subvert and deny OBC reservations, and so YFE filed an SLP (special leave petition) challenging the HC verdict in the Supreme Courtin Sep 2010. Todays verdict finally vanquished the anti-reservation forces even in the Supreme Court, which firmly upheld that cut-off and minimum eligibility were one and the same thing. .
The episode also exposed the double standards of the Congress-UPA Central government on the question of OBC reservations. In the course of the struggle, we repeatedly approached the HRD Ministry and Social Justice Ministry, asking them to step in and settle the matter by clarifying how their own law on OBC reservations was to be interpreted. Not only did the Central Government fail to do so. In fact during the JNU case in the Delhi HC, the Counsel for Central Government actually argued in support of the JNU Administration and YFE advocates, arguing against our (correct) interpretation of cut-off marks. It was only after the Delhi HC verdict vindicated AISAs 3-year long struggle that the Central Government changed its posture. .
It is indeed a moment of celebration for all those who stand by social justice and the constitutional rights of deprived sections of society to reservations. The whole struggle has exposed how anti-reservationists occupying high positions inside JNU administration tried to subvert OBC reservations by hook or by crook and today, the sustained struggle of the JNU community, including students as well as progressive teachers, against these ploys, has won a huge victory in the shape of the SC verdict. .
We appeal to all JNU students and organizations who stand by social justice to join a massive .
.
United Victory Procession from Ganga Dhaba, 9.30 pm tonight (18 August) .
Abhishek Kr. Yadav, Vice- President., AISA, JNU Sucheta, Gen. Secy, AISA, JNU .
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