New Delhi: With the implementation of the new proposal by the Ministry of Minority Affairs, the country would soon have a new model of central universities, offering special admission facility to students belonging to minority communities. Also, the proposed admission system for minority communities is not followed by any central university until now.
Salman Khursheed, Minister of Minority Affairs said that the idea has been borrowed from Dr B.R Ambedkar University, which came up with the idea of educationally empowering the students belonging to SC category. He further added that the government would either wait for the Supreme Court's judgement or resort to setting up of new central universities, which can help the educationally deprived minority students.
As per sources, the proposal forwarded to the Law Ministry for inspection explores a central university model in public-private partnership mode (instead of total central funding), to come up on land donated by the Wakf Board in Rajasthan, Bihar and Karnataka. However, offering admissions to majority as well as minority students, the land for these universities would be given by the Muslim communities with the minorities getting the maximum share of seats. They are expected to come up at Ajmer, Kishanganj and Mysore and are expected to get the maximum share of seats in these new varsities.
While introducing this new proposal, the ministry seems to overlook the Supreme Court status, which is still upholding its decision upon the status of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) as a minority institution. Since the University came up under an act of legislature and does not conform to the requirements under Article 30 of the Constitution that allows the minorities to establish and manage minority institutions, it status stands disputed.
