it is a grossly discriminatory idea (no doubt from the fertile brain of arjun singh) to exclude christist and mohammedan institutions from the proposed quota.
thus all the burden of reservation will fall on public and hindu institutions. and there are practically no hindu institutions in kerala, so that means basically all the proposed reservation seats are meaningless.
i am in two minds about the reservation idea in the first place: i imagine unlike many others who read this blog, i believe that reservations have done some good. [Flameproof suit on]
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From: R
Tuesday December 13 2005 11:27 IST
KOLLAM: The Kerala Dalit Federation (KDF) will organise an agitation against the Central Government decision to exclude the religious minority institutions from the purview of the Constitutional amendment aimed at providing reservations to SCs, STs and other backward communities in the private unaided educational institutions.
Federation president P. Ramabhadran said there was no justification for the exclusion of such institutions. As part of the agitation, the Federation will organise a secretariat march on December 19.
Ramabhadran said in Kerala 80 percent of the private unaided educational institutions were run by religious minorities. As the admission for SCs and STs are denied in such institutions, the majority of the Dalits will be denied the chance for higher education .
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Something that came into mind while reading the article about 80% institutions run by minorities,
Just because an institution is run by a minority community does not give that institution the tag of "minority institution". Ofcourse, it is certainly the biggest factor for an instituiton to be considered minority.
This was a major focus some years back in TKM College of Enginnering in Kollam, Kerala. The management suddenly decided to declare the instituiton "minority" and gave admissions that year on that basis. The batch (in)famously came to be known as the "minority batch".
The college was however denied the minority status, even though run be a muslim management (and expenses run by the state).
The funny thing here is that, most minority run instituitons dont want this tag. Reason being that, then they have to reserve 50% seats for that minority community and then only the rest is open for all other reservations.
So, out of about 90 engg. colleges in Kerala there are very few actual "minority instituitons" and only one I know of: MES College in Malappuram.
It will be interesting to know how many "minority institutions" are there totally in Kerala. I really doubt there being many.
One more thing,
This decision actually makes good financial sense for the govt. Private unaided colleges charge full tution fee (+ profit for the management) and not the subsidized price in govt. or govt. aided colleges.
And for people who get admission through this quota, the whole big fee is paid off by the govt. This news actually brings to my mind the whole "Rajini" suicide incident.
The only thing wrong here is that, instead of only minority institutions, the rule should have covered all the private unaided institutions.
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