PIL has been filed to reserve upto 85% seats for Delhiites in colleges

Recently, a petition has been filed before the Delhi High Court seeking reservation of up to 85% of total seat for Delhi domicile students in all college funded by the state government.

In the petition filed before a bench of Acting Chief Justice B D Ahmed and Justice Vibhu Bakhru, Moksh Foundation sought direction to the Centre and the state government to “adopt a new policy for reservation of upto 85 per cent of total seats available for Delhi domicile students in all 12 colleges funded by Delhi government.”

Moreover, the petition has been filed again other bodies too like Delhi University (DU) and the University Grants Commission (UGC). The petition has mention the list of 12 colleges where it asked for reservations which includes Deen Dayal Upadhaya College, Indira Gandhi Institute of Physical Educaiton, Keshav Mahavidyalya, Maharaja Agrasen College, Shaheed Raj Guru College and Shaheed Sukhdev College.

It also asked directions “to adopt a new policy for reservation of upto five per cent of total seats available for Delhi domicile students in all colleges having mixed funding by UGC and GNCTD.” It also asked to give five percent relaxation in cut-off marks to female candidate in bachelors courses in all colleges which comes under Delhi University.

The petitioner said the students who cleared their class XII exam from any government school or financially weaker students are deprived of the opportunity to study in DU colleges and the “bonafide residents of Delhi are arbitrarily and unjustifiably being denied admission to DU colleges due to limited avenues.”

The plea said that their fundamental right to education is being violated on account of failure of the government to frame any guidelines to safeguard the interest of the Delhi domicile students.