UGC Gets 8 Weeks to Include Norms on Tackling Caste Bias
Aaratrika Bhaumik | 16 September 2025 | The Hindu
The Supreme Court on Monday (September 15, 2025) directed the University Grants Commission (UGC) to consider the suggestions received from stakeholders on tackling caste-based discrimination in higher education campuses and to incorporate them into the University Grants Commission (Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions) Regulations, 2025, within eight weeks.
A Bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi was hearing a petition filed six years ago by the mothers of Rohith Vemula and Payal Tadvi, represented by senior advocate Indira Jaising and advocates Prasanna S. and Disha Wadekar. The petition sought urgent measures against what the petitioners described as “rampant” caste discrimination in universities, which they said had claimed their children’s lives…