JAMMU, Oct 17: The UGC equity regulations in Higher Education held a meeting by Dogra Brahman Partinidhi Sabha (DBPS) activists under the chairman ship of its president Ved Parkash Sharma at ChankayaChowk Parade on Saturday.
Addressing the meeting, Sharma said the new regulations give committees unchecked authority and offer no safe guards for general categories students. Any one could be falsely accused and have their academic career destroyed instead of offering protection these rules make students-especially those from the general category more vulnerable. We in enquiry and fairness, but it must be transparent and just for everyone.
DBPS Chariman Advocate P.C. Sharma, former Dy. Commissioner B.S.Jamwal and representatives of various organisations stressed the absence of transparency and accountability students fear being falsely accused. These rules must be paused reviewed and students voices must be heared. Equality without protections is not true equality.
They also claimed that the UGC rules would stoke inequalities and lead to social fragmentation. The movement he said was not against equality, but against ambiguity and unused.
DBPS members Subash Shastri, Jagan Nath Sharma, Sunil Sharma, Ritiz Khajuria, M.L. Padha, Shiv Ram Sharma, B.R. Sharma, Gurdass Sharma, Vijay Sharma, Rajesh Sharma, Devinder Sharma (Baboo), Ramesh Sharma, Prem Balotra, K.L. Sharma and others pointed out that these rules will spark division, suspicion and misuse adding we are not against equity we are against injustice being done in the name of it.
They said UGC regulation as unconstitutional and contrary to the principles of natural justice and inclusivity.
DBPS urged the Prime Minister to immediate withdrawal of this law and called for broad public consultation before any such measures ware enforced.