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BHU students take out rally against quota
As part of the nation-wide protest against the Union Cabinet's decision to introduce a bill in Parliament providing 27 percent reservation to Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in government-aided elite educational institution, BHU students under the banner of ?Youth for Equality? took out a massive procession from the BHU main gate to Sankat Mochan Temple, on Thursday.
As part of the nation-wide protest against the Union Cabinet's decision to introduce a bill in Parliament providing 27 percent reservation to Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in government-aided elite educational institution, BHU students under the banner of ‘Youth for Equality’ took out a massive procession from the BHU main gate to Sankat Mochan Temple, on Thursday.
The agitated members of Resident Doctor's Association (RDA) and Medical Students Association (MSA) of Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS-BHU) and students of Science and Commerce faculties of BHU shouted slogans against HRD Minister Arjun Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi to register their protest against reservation policies of the UPA government.
Earlier, the members of RDA and MSA of IMS-BHU attended classes, OPDs and Emergency etc., wearing black badges to mark their protest here today. The students said, “We see this decision as government passing its failures onto us.
They failed to provide good education at primary level and now it is making the quality of higher education suffer.”
“The admission of students, which do not meet the standard required not only unjust for the students of general category but it also deprives the meritorious students of standard education in the country. All we are trying to say is that let merit decide, not caste, that who should be admitted and who should not.
We are not against any caste but are only against the government's move of creating quotas,” said the agitated students.
Demanding an immediate reversal of the Union Government's move to present the bill in Parliament, the medicos said “This move overlooks the effect of this on the standards and reputation of premier institutes like the IITs, IIMs, AIIMS and others by weakening their intellectual strength.” “We would continue our protest against government’s quota policy till we breathed last,” said Shashi Prakash Mishra of Medical Students Association.
