The opposition AIADMK has criticised the ruling AINRC Government for adopting a chaotic policy in the Higher education sector depriving students from the Scheduled Caste community of their opportunity to pursue higher education.
Speaking to reporters here on Saturday, AIADMK Deputy Legislature party leader A. Anbalagan said that the government was recognising students belonging to Scheduled Castes on the grounds that their parents had been residents in Puducherry prior to 1964 and has been extending benefits of reservation to them. But children of parents who had migrated to Puducherry and those who had not registered their birth are not extended the same benefits on the grounds that they are migrants. The government has been adopting a discriminatory policy because the migrant population had come to Puducherry only at the instance of the opportunities available to them in employment. While procuring the funds, the Puducherry Government was projecting the population of SCs as 15 per cent.
This includes all section of SCs. But denying these children the benefits of reservation is unconstitutional.
All the benefits must be available on an equal footing for all these Scheduled Caste candidates whether they are native or outsiders.
Policy on SCs in higher education chaotic: AIADMK
