Caste Politics is the reason for the decline of the Lucknowʼs Ambedkar University: UGC report

Caste Politics is the reason for the decline of the Lucknowʼs Ambedkar University: UGC report

A recent audit report backed by the government said that the Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University in Lucknow is in a state of 'complete and practically irreversible decline and collapse'.The reason cited in the report for the decline is the division in the University along the lines of castes which led to unruliness within the university at all levels be it physical, academic or administrative. "The “final death knell” of the university is the “role of caste and the part it has played in completely polarising the institution into various groups, special interests, political groupings”", the report said. The report also said that the quality of students is not at par with the desired standards of the central university. The university was established in 1996 and was named after the Dalit icon of the nation. On April 25, five committees were setup by the University Grants Commission (UGC) in order to conduct an “academic, research, financial and infrastructure audit” of 10 central universities, including BR Ambedkar University, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Pondicherry University and Allahabad University. The committees were set up on the order of HRD Ministry which had asked the UGC to conduct the audit following the complaints from some groups regarding the functioning of the institutions.The university is open to all the caste and systems but was set up with a specific purpose to help the students of the lower caste groups as 50% of the seats of all programs of the university are reserved for the lower caste group.The report mentioned “rebellious and destructive attitudes of some of the SC/ST staff and their feelings of entitlements cross reasonable limits and doubtless they are a major polarising and debilitating influence on the students and non-teaching community”.“The victims of this entire educational ‘experimentʼ are the students. The student community is totally divided on caste lines and even the staff and faculty have the similar divisions,” the report said.

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