Chandigarh: Parkash Singh Badal, Punjab CM asked Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal to immediately issue directions to the UGC and the deemed Thapar University at Patiala to maintain territorial quota of 50 per cent in Punjab.
The Chief Minister, in a letter to Sibal, sought his intervention to redress "this genuine grievance" of the state to ensure that no step-motherly treatment was meted out to Punjab students by the Thapar University or UGC.
Badal told Sibal that the Deemed Thapar University in Patiala had recently taken a decision in their meeting of Board of Governors (BOGs) on February 24, 2012, citing UGC guidelines, to de-reserve 50 per cent of the seats for the undergraduate courses which were being filled earlier out of the quota meant for students belonging to Punjab.
He mentioned that the Thapar Institute, which had come up as an Institute of Excellence, was solely on account of contributions made by the state and thereafter giving them grant-in-aid and the other financial assistance under various government schemes.
The Deemed Thapar University is not in the present shape of its own but definitely due to the active financial and in support of the state government.
Badal said that with this decision of the BOGs, the interests of the students of Punjab have been "sacrificed /compromised" which in no way was acceptable to the state.
The Chief Minister also pointed out that the other deemed universities like NIT, Jalandhar, and Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Longowal, are having 50 per cent seats reserved as state quota under the umbrella of UGC only.
In the city of Chandigarh, the Punjab Engineering College, also a deemed university, was also having 50 per cent territorial quota for students of Chandigarh city alone, said Badal adding the decision of the BOGs is without any intimation, consent or approval of Punjab.
Badal told Sibal that the Deemed Thapar University in Patiala had recently taken a decision in their meeting of Board of Governors (BOGs) on February 24, 2012, citing UGC guidelines, to de-reserve 50 per cent of the seats for the undergraduate courses which were being filled earlier out of the quota meant for students belonging to Punjab.
He mentioned that the Thapar Institute, which had come up as an Institute of Excellence, was solely on account of contributions made by the state and thereafter giving them grant-in-aid and the other financial assistance under various government schemes.
The Deemed Thapar University is not in the present shape of its own but definitely due to the active financial and in support of the state government.
Badal said that with this decision of the BOGs, the interests of the students of Punjab have been "sacrificed /compromised" which in no way was acceptable to the state.
The Chief Minister also pointed out that the other deemed universities like NIT, Jalandhar, and Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Longowal, are having 50 per cent seats reserved as state quota under the umbrella of UGC only.
In the city of Chandigarh, the Punjab Engineering College, also a deemed university, was also having 50 per cent territorial quota for students of Chandigarh city alone, said Badal adding the decision of the BOGs is without any intimation, consent or approval of Punjab.
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