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Against Reservation Quota

Tuesday, May 23, 2006 (New Delhi):


After the director of IIM Ahmedabad, it's now the vice-chancellor of Delhi University (DU) who's expressed doubts over the feasibility of increasing seats in the university.
The suggestion was one of the many made by the Group of Ministers to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to help accommodate quota students.
At a press conference, DU Vice Chancellor Deepak Pental expressed doubts over the government's suggestion to increase seats in colleges to accommodate more quota students.
Professor Pental said quality will suffer as a result of the seat increase. He also said very categorically that -
Even if the Centre were to give funds and it was carried out on a war footing, it would take 2-3 years to have the infrastructure in place in order to increase seats in DU.
Many teaching positions in DU were already lying vacant and teacher to student ratio not optimum.
Quality should be a priority for institutes even if affirmative action is to be carried out.
The other sideBut pro-reservationists holding a maha panchayat in the capital were dismissive of his claims.
"When the government is ready to help, then who is he to refuse," said one pro-reservationist.
"When the PM supports it, the HRD minister supports it and he constitution provides for it, then what is the point of the Vice Chancellor saying he cannot increase seats," said another.
Already IIM Ahmedabad has ruled out increasing the number of seats at the institute because quality will suffer. It also said that the institute lacked the infrastructure for the expansion.
This is more or less what the DU Vice-Chancellor also feels.
Meanwhile, the government is yet to announce how it plans to accommodate the increased quota.

--Courtesy - NDTV

posted by TILAK @ 5:34 AM