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Court notice to Delhi University on M.A. Music entrance test
Sunday November 20, 2011 05:02:51 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The Delhi
High Court has issued notice to Delhi University on a petition
questioning the validity of the admission criteria for Masters in
Music (Hindustani) course which is solely based on the performance
in an entrance test.
A division bench of acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice
Rajiv Sahai Endlaw Friday issued notice to Delhi University,
Faculty of Music and Fine Arts, Ramjas College and student Avinash
Kumar Jha on the petition filed by Babita Rawat.
The court asked all the respondents to file their reply by Jan 27.
Rawat stated that she had been denied admission in the M.A. Music
for the academic year 2011-12 despite the fact that she secured 63
percent marks in aggregate in B.A. Music while studying in Ramjas
College.
She stated that Avinash Kumar Jha who was not eligible to be even
registered for the course had not only been selected but also
granted admission in M.A. Music in Ramjas College.
The petitioner submitted that she and other candidates were
subjected to an entrance test (practical) in July by a four-member
selection committee constituted by the Faculty of Music and Fine
Arts, Delhi University's Department of Music.
The faculty exhibited the first, second and final lists of
selected candidates. But the name of the petitioner was not
included in any list.
"The merit list is drawn solely on the basis of the performance in
the entrance test (practical). No written test is taken. No record
of the entrance test (practical) is maintained by the selection
committee," petitioner's counsel Ashok Agarwal said.
"The decisions to select candidates are solely at the whims and
fancies of the committee members. Such a criteria is open to
discrimination, favouritism, arbitrariness and therefore,
impermissible in law," he added.
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