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…
New Delhi: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has recently been at the receiving end of a lot of negativity and backlash because of their ‘De-Reservation Draft’ Guidelines according to which, any vacancy reserved for candidates belonging to Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) or Other Backward Classes (OBC) can be declared ‘unreserved’ in case enough candidates from these categories are unavailable. In a latest development, these De-Reservation Draft Guidelines were removed from the official website of the University Grants Commission. The Chairman of the Commission, M Jagadeesh Kumar has also issued a clarification regarding the same…
UGC De-Reservation Draft Guidelines Pulled Back?
As mentioned earlier, amid backlash for its ‘De-Reservation Draft’, the the guidelines have been removed from the official website of the University Grants Commission (UGC). Does this mean that the commission has pulled back the guidelines permanently?
UGC Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar Clarifies
Amid the controversy, backlash and ‘missing’ de-reservation draft guidelines from the UGC website, the Chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC), M Jagadesh Kumar has clarified the action saying that the guidelines have been removed from the website the limited time period to submit feedback is over for the stakeholders.
Another clarification, previously issued by the Chairman was, “This is to clarify that there has been no de-reservation of reserved category positions in Central Educational Institutions [CEI] in the past and there is going to be no such de-reservation. It is important for all [higher education institutions] to ensure that all backlog positions in reserved category are filled up through concerted efforts.”
No Reserved Posts Can Be De-Reserved: Ministry Of Education
On the UGC De-Reservation Draft Guidelines, the Ministry of Education (MoE) issued a statement on the social media platform ‘X’ (formerly known as Twitter) saying, “Reservation in Central Educational Institutions is provided for all posts in direct recruitment in Teacher’s cadre as per the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Teachers’ Cadre) Act, 2019. “After enactment of this Act, no reserved post is to be de-reserved. Ministry of Education has given directives to all the CEIs to fill up the vacancies strictly as per the 2019 ACT.”
