Big Bungling in Kashmiri Migrant Reservation Quota

Big Bungling in Kashmiri Migrant Reservation Quota                              Maharaj Shah

Of GGS Inderprastha University Delhi.

After a long tiresome wait of months together the Govt. of NCT had finally issued regulations for the reservation policy of 2009 for admission in GGSIPU Delhi and subsequently the university Jt. Registrar(Acad) vide his notice dated 12/08/2009 announces that the reservation policy in respect to self financing institutes of the university shall continue to be the same for the academic year2009-10 as mentioned in the existing admission brochure 2009-10 published by the university for various programmes for the academic session 2009-10 in self financing institutes . For Govt. and affiliated institutes located outside Delhi the existing policy will continue. This notice is signed by the said Jt. Registrar on 11/8/2009.

Going by the University brochure on page 74 at point IV under heading SUPERNUMARY SEATS FOR KASHMIRI MIGRANTS, One seat, which will be supernumerary in nature is earmarked for Kashmiri Migrants in each institution.

Admission will be based on merit through CET-2009. First preference will be given to Kashmiri Migrants registered in Delhi up to 11.6.2001. In case of seats remaining vacant Kashmiri Migrants settled out side Delhi will be considered.

On August 14, 2009 counseling for Kahmiri Migrant students Qualifying CET-2009 and falling under Reserve Category as mentioned above was called by the IPU at Gitarattan College Rohini. As per the above norms there were expected to be twelve seats available for the aspiring students in Government affiliated and aided as well as self finance institutes. But to the dejection and dismay of all the students and their parents the University Authorities through some misgiving or misappropriation seemed to have subverted the entire Quota seats and through corrosion reduced the number of seats to just three, said the students who had come for the counseling.

From amongst a dozen or more students only three students registered in Delhi from 11.06.2001 could make it to the three colleges that were notified to have been having one seat per college vacant for the Kashmiri Migrant students. To the surprise and shock of every one the remaining nine colleges were shown having no seat vacant for the Kashmiri Migrant students thus tearing apart the Regulation to Dust Bin and depriving the deserving candidates of their legitimate right.

There is constrain commotion and utter dejection in the entire Kashmiri Migrant community over the evident default in the process of this admission. When confronted with facts of the reservation policy as stated above the University Authority Representative and the concerned officials at the counseling centre told that they were helpless and could do nothing about it as they had to fallow the instructions of the Jt. Registrar(Acad.). On the saying of the University Official conducting the Counseling this scribe had tried hard to contact the Jt. Registrar but he did not pick-up the phone.

Contradicting their own notified reservation policy guidelines dtd.12/08/2009 the concerned authorities’ viz. (Jt. Registrar academics) of GGSIPU has arbitrarily refused admission to the wards of Kashmir migrants against their govt. approved quota of one seat over and above in the affiliated self financed institutions. On the one hand the said authority has notified that the reservation status of the said category will remain the same (unchanged) as per the policy given in 2009- 10 admissions earlier except for inclusion of 5% OBC, but at the counseling venue the hapless aspirants holding bank drafts and files after an ordeal of more than 40 days wait, are refused counseling after filling just 1 seat in the affiliated self financed institutions. If   done by mistake it needs immediate rectification or the matter is a serious manipulation of some hanky-panky and requires immediate reversal and redressal.