School is a general term for all education institution. The problem isn't about Sikhs or anybody else. Don't read it as a complaint from me. I am simply stating the fact religion causes people to create a criterion to discriminate, which actually takes people away from Lord as Lord can not be biased.
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For your kind information Linguistic minorities in India are also entitled to set up college's and reserve seat upto 50% for their students.Here i want to show you a conversation
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'College seats are reserved to protect minority rights' - The Times of India
'College seats are reserved to protect minority rights'
MUMBAI: With college admissions now in progress, the issue of reservation of seats for linguistic minorities has cropped up once again. Many colleges managed by linguistic minorities are openly declaring that they have reserved as many as 50 per cent of their seats for students from their respective communities.
This has resulted in widespread resentment among Marathi-speaking youth who feel discriminated against in their own state.
TNN spoke to Professor J.K. Bhambhani (72), a veteran educationist who is the rector and secretary of the Hyderabad (Sind) National Collegiate Board, which runs as many as 23 institutions in Mumb a i and Ulhasnagar, including colleges of arts, science, commerce, engineering and pharmacy.
The board had fought a grim legal battle up to the supreme court to uphold the rights of minority educational institutions and Prof. Bhambhani was closely associated with the litigation. Excerpts from an interview:
There is lot of resentment among Marathispeaking students of Mumbai because they have less chance of getting admission in colleges run by
Sindhis, South Indians, Gujaratis and other linguistic minorities. These colleges are openly advertising the fact that as much as 50 per cent of their seats are reserved for students of their communities. Don't you think that this is unjust?
The first clause of Article 30 of the constitution gives minorities the fundamental right to administer educational institutions for members of their communities. This position has been rightly upheld by the apex court. We were compelled by circumstances to move the court to defend our fundamental right.
What were these “compelling circumstances''?
In 1992, the Maharashtra government started interfering in the working of institutions run by minorities. We had no choice but to move the courts to stop this interference and assert our fundamental right.
But aren't minority institutions being parochial when they reserve seats for their communities?
No. Even though in our admission notices we state that up to 50 per cent seats are reserved for Sindhis, we end up filling only 20 per cent seats with Sindhis. Except for our engineering colleges, in all our other institutions 50 per cent of students are non-Sindhis.
If you are not filling 50 per cent with Sindhi students, then why have a seperate quota for them?
The aim is to safeguard our basic rights as minorities. We are not against anybody. But minority rights have to be protected in a democracy. In fact, the courts have clarified that just because a minority institution gets a government grant it does not mean that its rights can be trampled upon by the authorities.
The ground reality is that even Marathispeaking students with adequate marks are not getting admission in colleges of their choice. An absurd situation is thus prevailing in the capital of Maharashtra, where sons of the soil are finding themselves discriminated against because of their mother tongue. Please comment.
Any community which is less than one per cent of the population of a state is treated as a minority. For example, Sindhis are minorities in all the states of the Indian union. We have no state of our own.
We have set up educational institutions not only for our community, but for others as well. We are only ensuring that students belonging to our community, and who have merit, are not at a disadvantage. We have nothing any against any other community.
In fact, the cut-off line (of marks) for Sindhis and students belonging to the backward categories is the same.
But, where do Marathi-speaking students go for admissions?
The constitution should be amended if the present situation is to change. I wish to emphasise that nobody is against Marathi-speaking students. But court verdicts should be respected. The Supreme Court had passed its order on minority institutions after extensive deliberation.
Marathi-speaking people have allowed those from outside Maharashtra to come to Mumbai and flourish in the metropolis.
Shouldn't the linguistic minorities reciprocate their goodwill?
There is no doubt that there should be a sense of fair play. Our board is displaying that in ample measure. I cannot advise other minority-run bodies. But meritorious students should not be denied admission on any ground.
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Now what you are going to say about language's.Should we all start hating Language? Should we start speaking in sign language
understand it happens in all religions. That's why religions actually beat the purpose. Someone who claims to believe The Almighty Lord, has no reason at all to discriminate. Those who do discriminate and still claim that they believe in The Almighty Lord are simply lying about the part that believe in The Almighty Lord...
In addition, claiming that monas could convert to reap the benefit also takes people's freedom of religion away from monas. Freedom of religion is not only about freedom to choose any religion at all. Freedom of religion also means freedom not to choose any religion at all and freedom to choose part of any religion.
The seats that reserved for practicing sikhs.If a mona consider himself sikh and want to take admission for seat that is reserved for Sikh Then he needs to become a practicing sikh.If a person has right freedom not choose any religion then how could he want a benefit that is reserved for a person who is practicing a religion
