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Thapar University restores quota for Punjab
students
Thursday May 03, 2012 06:45:15 PM,
IANS
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Chandigarh: Following a tough stand taken by the
Punjab government, the Patiala-based Thapar University Thursday
rolled back its decision to abolish 50 percent quota for state
students in various courses of the institution, a government
official said.
"After being persuaded by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, the
university has decided to restore the 50 percent territorial quota
for the students of Punjab," a spokesman of the chief minister's
office said.
The board of governors of the university has handed over a letter
to principal secretary-technical education S.S. Channy, which
states that the earlier decision to abolish the quota for Punjab
students will not be implemented.
"In deference to the wishes of the state government and without
going into the legality of the same, we agree that we will not
implement the aforesaid decision, as taken by the board in its
meeting held on Feb 24 this year, till the same is decided in the
next board meeting after mutual discussions in accordance with the
rules/by laws of the university," the letter said.
The state government had earlier said that it would not allow the
Thapar University to go ahead with the decision, pointing out that
the university had been allotted land at discounted rates and had
also drawn other benefits from the government.
The chief minister also took up the matter with Union Human
Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal.
The university, however, said that it took the decision to abolish
the quota in accordance with the University Grants Commission
guidelines.
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