NALSAR violating quota rule: Congress

Hyderabad: The Congress party on Tuesday approached the National Commission for Backward Classes demanding implementation of reservation for Backward Classes in NALSAR University of Law.

"The NALSAR University has been violating the law by not implementing the legally mandatory quota for students belonging to Backward Classes," All India Congress Committee (AICC) spokesperson Dasoju Sravan said in his petition submitted before National Commission for Backward Classes chairperson Bhagwan Lal Sahni in New Delhi.

He also cited references of his letter to Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao wherein he complained of NASLAR University not implementing 85 per cent quota for local students and also the response given by NALSAR justifying non-implementation of reservation policy.

"While we made a representation to the Chief Minister on May 6 seeking his intervention for reservation of seats in the NALSAR University of Law for the local and domicile as well as the students belonging to the OBC and BC category, unfortunately, the Registrar of NALSAR University has released an uncalled for press note dated May 7 justifying the violation of rule of reservation and misleading the government of Telangana," he said.

The Registrar of the NALSAR University came up with a lame and untenable excuse that there is no provision made in the NALSAR University Act to extend reservations to OBCs students.

"Neither the NALSAR University nor the State of Telangana is allowed to violate the Presidential Order and rule of reservation that was already in existence in Telangana and continue to harp on an illegal act that was made preventing the statutory rights to students," he said.

The University follows the guidelines for strict implementation of reservation policy of the Government in Universities, Deemed to be Universities, Colleges and Other Grant-in-aid Institutions and Centres' issued by the University Grants Commission, New Delhi in 2006 which clearly binds the University to follow the percentage of reservation prescribed by the respective State.

However, he alleged that in contravention of the said laws, orders and directions of the State government, the University is not providing adequate reservation in respect of the students in the OBC and BC category.