Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 28: Up in arms against the UGC Equity Regulations in Higher Education, Dogra Brahman Partinidhi Sabha activists held a protest under the chairman ship of its president Ved Parkash Sharma at Chankaya Chowk Parade on Wednesday.
Addressing the protesters, Ved Parkash Sharma said the new regulations give committees unchecked authority and offer no safe guards for general categories students. “Any one could be falsely accused and have their academic career destroyed. Instead of offering protection, these rules make students-especially those from the general category more vulnerable. We support enquiry and fairness, but it must be transparent and just for everyone,” he said.
DBPS Chairman Advocate P C Sharma said that the absence of transparency and accountability in the new regulations fear general category students being falsely accused. These rules must be paused reviewed and students voices must be heard as equality without protection is not true equality, he added.
Protesters claimed the UGC rules would stoke inequalities and lead to social fragmentation. “We are not against equality, but against ambiguity,’ they said.
DBPS members Subash Shastri, Jagan Nath Sharma, Sunil Sharma, Ritiz Khajuria, M L Padha, Shiv Ram Sharma, Barita Ram, B B Seth, Gurdass Sharma, B S Jamwal, Vijay Sharma, Sunil Sharma, Ramesh Sharma, Brem Balotra, K L Sharma and others spoke on the occasion.
Shouting slogans and waving banner, protesters flayed the UGC regulation as unconstitutional and contrary to the principles of natural justice and inclusivity.
DBPS urged the Prime Minister to order immediate withdrawal of the controversial gazette notification on the regulation and called for broad public consultation before any such measures ware enforced.
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