‘India’s Higher Education System is casteist’ The Asian Centre for Human Rights has come up with a report revealing the “discrimination” towards Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in India’s higher education system. The ACHR report titled ‘India’s Unfinished Agenda for Inclusion: A study on denial of reservation to the tribals in the government services and posts,’ also informed that from 2001 to 2012, one hundred and one crimes were committed every day against SCs and STs in India. The ACHR informed that as per the National Crime Records Bureau, a total of 4,40,691 crimes were committed against the SCs and the STs from 2001 to 2012. This implies at least 101 crimes were committed every day against the SCs and the STs during the same period. “The figures of the NCRB are only tip of the iceberg as most crimes against the SCs and the STs are not reported to and/or registered by the police,” it added. The report cited the University Grants Commission’s disclosure that the representation of STs in the post of professors has come down from 3.88% in 2006-07 to 0.24% in 2010-11. As per the same report, the number of ST readers came down from 1.03% in 2006-2007 to 0.32% in 2010-11. It further informed that the number of ST lecturers came down from 4.43% in 2006-07 to 3.63% in 2010-11. Source : morungexpress/frontpage/103424.html
Posted on: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 19:14:42 +0000
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