Amid backlash for its De-Reservation Draft , the guidelines have been removed from the official website of the University Grants Commission (UGC). The Commission s Chairman has clarified.
Indian universities must leave aside caste blindness as progressiveness because casteism is grossly under acknowledged in the higher education institutions of I
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has alleged a conspiracy by RSS-BJP to do away with caste-based reservation in higher education and said the Congress "will never let this happen".
The Ministry of Education Sunday clarified that no reserved posts can be de-reserved after draft guidelines by the UGC proposed that any vacancy reserved for SC, ST and OBC candidates can be declared unreserved if enough candidates from these categories are not available