Pro-quota students gear up for battle ahead

ALLAHABAD UNIVERSITY students defending reservation decided to proceed to Delhi in a meeting held at the AU union hall on Saturday. AUSU president Ajit Kumar Yadav presided over the meeting conducted by Munna Singh.

ALLAHABAD UNIVERSITY students defending reservation decided to proceed to Delhi in a meeting held at the AU union hall on Saturday. AUSU president Ajit Kumar Yadav presided over the meeting conducted by Munna Singh.

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Addressing the students, Yadav said that the pro-reservationists could go to the extreme for 27 per cent reservation in higher education and defend the HRD Minister Arjun Singh from the feudualists opposing reservation.

Dr Nirbhay Singh Patel said that the students were prepared to fight for such an important issue and to weed out problems in implementation of reservation.

Ripusoodan Yadav urged the students to fight on their own for reservation.

Surendra Chaudhari, Pravesh Singh Yadav, Dr Ramesh Prakash Verma, Mukund Lal Maurya and others appealed to the students to support reservation. Munna Singh informed the students about the proceedings and said that the students would leave for Delhi on May 21. He said that roadside meetings would be held on Sunday at Daraganj, on Monday at Allapur and on Tuesday at Govindpur.

The students urged the HRD Minister to clarify the reservation policy and to adopt decentralisation policies for providing benefits to more students in higher education.

Meanwhile, anti-reservationists expressed their determination to oppose reservation in a meeting presided over by student leader Abhishek Shukla.

Addressing the students, Shukla said that reservation would block the entry of meritorious students to higher education and the students would not let this happen. The student leaders also carried out contact programmes in several hostels and delegacies to apprise the students of the adverse effect of reservation.

Pradeep Narayan Dwivedi said that the students would not allow reservation if the criteria of reservation was not revised. Reservation should be based on the economic status of the candidate. Sunil Dwivedi said reservation would lower the demand of Indians in foreign countries and hamper progress.

Admission notice : Director, Law Admission Test -06 BP Singh said that admission test for LLB (3 year, 6 semester) degree course will be held on July 3 (Monday).

Eligibilityfor appearing in the admission test is graduation with at least 40 per cent marks (35 per cent for SC/ST candidates) in Arts/Commerce/Science/ Agriculture/Engineering or Medical faculty. Candidates who have appeared in their graduation examinations and whose results are awaited may also appear in the test, but if they score less than the required percentages of marks in their qualifying examination, they will be rendered ineligible for admission.

Foreign nationals and NRIs who have graduated from a foreign university are exempted from the admission test. They should directly contact the Director Law Admission Test -06 for their admission. Detailed information about the Admission test/ admission are given in the bulletin to be supplied along with the admission test forms.

The general category candidates can obtain their admission test forms from Colonelganj and Alopibagh branches of the Punjab National Bank, Allahabad on payment of Rs 250 while the SC/ST candidates, physically handicapped candidates and the wards of class III and class IV employees of AU can obtain their forms on payment of Rs 100 at the Govindpur branch of the bank from May 8 to May 22, on all working days between 11 am and 2 pm.Duly filled up application forms shall be deposited on the specified counters of the Law Faculty, AU between 11 am and 2 pm from May 8 to May 22 on all working days and upto 4 pm on the last date. The admission test forms shall not be sent/submitted by post.

Admit cards will be sent to the candidates on the address given by them on the computer-sheet.