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In a shocking turn of events in the <keyword id="3212197" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Rohith-Vemula-Suicide">Rohith Vemula suicide</keyword> case and the uproar that has followed, reports suggest that most central universities of the country would probably fail the anti-discrimination test. 
 To know whether <keyword id="6510139" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Indian-Universities">Indian universities</keyword> actually practice anti-discrimination or not, an assessment was done for all central universities at the conference of central university vice-chancellors. The results, one might ask? Not even a single central university has appointed an ombudsman, with only eight of the 46 central universities having a grievance redressal cell for complaints in this matter. 
 As per the assessment of the <keyword id="51613" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="hrd-ministry">HRD ministry</keyword>, Indian universities came out to have done extensive violation of regulations, when it comes to the UGC (Promotion of Equity in Higher Educational Institutions) Regulation 2012. 
 
These regulations demand that institutions should necessarily set up an equal opportunity cell, appoint anti-discrimination officers, declare mechanism for implementation of the regulations and set up grievance redressal cells. 
 
However, only 10 universities have notified a mechanism for implementation of these regulations, while only 5 have got them working. Equal Opportunities Commission has been set up by only 19 central universities and just 13 of these actually work. An anti-discrimination officer has been appointed only 10 universities, and again, only 5 of them work. 
 
The gross enrolment ratio (GER) for various social groups as per a pan India survey for higher education is all the way more shocking. While the GER for all groups stood at 23.6, it is 18.5 for SCs and 13.3 for STs in 2014-15. Even though these numbers are up from last year’s 17.1for SCs and 11.3 for STs, there is still a long road to achieving success in actual terms. 
 
The HRD ministry has also alerting university administrations about increased diversity in campuses, leading to an amalgamation of different cultures and requirign 'proactive integration' through inclusive structures, empathy, support and effective monitoring. 
 Talking of <keyword id="6387481" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Hyderabad-Central-University">Hyderabad Central University</keyword>, the fact-finding committee has come up with results that say that the essential institutional redressal mechanisms for handling student grievances and problems "seems to be non-functional/defunct and is responsible for enhancing the feeling of deprivation and discrimination among the students from the socially and economically weaker sections".

More Rohith Vemulas in the making? Not even a single Indian university can pass the anti-discrimination test with flying colors

Prime Minister <keyword id="6354477" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi">Narendra Modi</keyword>, who was in Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University in Lucknow as a chief guest on convocation, was disrupted by protesters, who were eventually escorted out. 
 
Modi’s speech was disrupted when students started chanting anti-Modi slogans. 
 
“Narendra Modi Murdabad,” students raised. 
 
 
 
Meanwhile, Modi also broke his silence on the suicide of Dalit scholar in Hyderabad. 
 
“When I received this news that a young man Rohith committed suicide, I thought about the condition of his parents,” said Modi. 
 
Students are protesting Rohith’s suicide, demaning a probe into it. HRD Minister Smriti Irani said it was not a Dalit vs non-Dalit battle. 
 
Modi hinted that these issues should not be politicised. 
 
“There must have been reasons, politics is different. The truth that India lost her son,” said Modi. 
 
(Images: PIB, ANI)

PM Modi breaks silence on Dalit scholar suicide; slogan shouting students escorted out

2016 seemed to have got off on a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/JNUSU-president-Kanhaiya-Kumar-moves-petition-seeking-bail/articleshow/51041173.cms">rather unpleasant note for Indian colleges</a>. We are not even half way through the New year, and there are a spate of unfortunate incidents on campuses that have already hit national headlines. 
 
Even as the count would be more than what we have, here are the 6 most <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Pro-Dalit-party-rakes-up-Rohith-Vemulas-suicide-disrupts-Budget-Session-Mayawati-demands-Smriti-Iranis-resignation/articleshow/51120138.cms">disturbing incidents reported from the campuses</a> since January which have rocked the nation:

6 bizarre incidents at Indian college campuses this year that rocked the nation

There has not been much of a breakthrough in JNU research scholar's case, who was found dead on Monday. The Delhi Police have so far only revealed that it appears to be a suicide case, and they have no indication of any foul play in this incident. 
 
The reason for taking this extreme step, however, is yet to be known as a suicide note was not found. However, cops said the boy was depressed over personal issues for some time. 
 27-year-old J. <keyword id="4295877" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Muthukrishnan">Muthukrishnan</keyword> ended his life at his friend's room in the University campus. His body was found hanging after two friends broke open the door at 5 pm. He had gone to the friend’s house in the afternoon to have food. He said he wanted to sleep and went to a room and locked himself inside. Later, on getting no response, his friends called the police. 
 “A call was received at 5:05pm on Monday that a person had locked himself in a room at a house in Munirka,” a senior police official said. When cops reached to the spot found <keyword id="23678" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Krish">Krish</keyword> (as Muthukrishnan was called by friends) hanging from the ceiling fan. 
 The case is being seen as the second <keyword id="1725862" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Rohith">Rohith</keyword> Vermula death incident. Muthukrishnan too belonged to the Scheduled Caste and was an active member of the justice for <keyword id="3210782" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Rohith-Vemula">Rohith Vemula</keyword> movement. He was pursuing MPhil in JNU and was a native of Salem in Tamil Nadu. Muthukrishnan was an active student in all Dalit movements. In his blog titled "a universal mother without a nation", he elaborated how he met Rohith six times before he took the extreme step on January 17, 2016. "All the intellectuals from the marginalised communities will get arrested just for mocking fictional characters. At the same time, all the leading national institutes will be headed by people who cannot even clear the 10th standard exam. These people claim dissenters as anti-nationals and seditious. They are going to kill many Rohiths, like us, just for eating beef, for being rational, for being intellectually productive for the country. But we are the real sons of this land and after we are all killed, there will be no nation," he said. 
 
Meanwhile, student leaders of various students’ political wing have started blaming each other over the issue. 
 Reacting on the issue, <keyword id="3054758" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Shehla-Rashid">Shehla Rashid</keyword>, former Vice president, JNU students’ union tweeted “JNU VC recently moved court against protesting students &amp; the HC banned protests at Admin block, to which Rajini refers in his last post L.” 
 On the other side, Saurabh Sharma, member ABVP and former joint secretary <keyword id="346405" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="JNUSU">JNUSU</keyword> tweeted “why were the anarchist-leftist gangs so prompt in reaching the site of suicide? Is it a care of criminal conspiracy? Was Rajini murdered?” 
 
The deceased scholar spoke about discrimination <a href="https://www.facebook.com/muthukrishanan.jeevanantham/posts/1945753248981124">in his alleged last Facebook post</a>. "When equality is denied everything is denied. There is no Equality in M.phil/phd Admission, there is no equality in viva - voce, there is only denial of equality, denying Prof. Sukhadeo thorat recommendation, denying students protest places in Ad - block, denying the education of the marginal." 
 
Cops are as of now going over his mobile and internet chat details to ascertain the cause of taking this extreme step.

Everything you must know about research scholar J. Muthukrishnan death case that has rocked JNU

Prime Minister <keyword id="6354477" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi">Narendra Modi</keyword> has finally broken his silence on the JNU row. As per reports, at the BJP Parliamentary party executive committee meeting, he asked BJP lawmakers to not shy away from debating aggressively on the JNU issue in Parliament. 
 In the <keyword id="48510" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Rajya-Sabha">Rajya Sabha</keyword> today, the ruling party and the opposition will be debating on the JNU incident and Rohith Vemula's suicide case; both cases have garnered much attention in the country in the recent past. 
 
If the reports are to be believed, the opposition has planned to target the way the government handled the JNU incident. They will apparently bring up the issue of police being sent to the university campus at night and slapping the students with tough sedition charges. This is the reason why Modi wants his government to be well-prepared for the heated arguments. 
 
The lawmakers are asked to be confident about their work, and are legally strong, since raising anti-national slogan amounts to sedition in the books of law. 
 
Allegedly, the ruling party can also bring up the arrest of Kashmiri terrorist Muhammad Ghauri from JNU during Congress-led UPA rule. 
 
<a href="http://d1udmfvw0p7cd2.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/n-modiarrival-a-20140831.jpg">Image source</a>

PM Modi asks BJP members to aggressively debate on JNU incident in Rajya Sabha today

Rahul Gandhi created a history of sorts on Thursday. He lost the Amethi in Uttar Pradesh, which no Congress leader ever did since 1980. In fact, death took two of its MPs- Sanjay Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi away from this seat. It was then taken over by Sonia Gandhi who later had her son and her ‘heir apparent’ to take over. That proved to be a fatal mistake, this election. However, it should be mentioned that Rahul had won from this constituency thrice since 2004. Irani won, albeit with a margin of over 55,000 votes with Rahul emerging as the runner-up. Congress grip loosens <keyword id="6612" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Smriti-Irani">Smriti Irani</keyword> a former model, actress and union HRD minister achieved something only one person ever did---a non-Congress candidate who won from the seat. It has been with the party since 1967, ever since it was created. Only Rajendra Pratap Singh of Janata Party had it post-emergency between 1977-80. Irani might have gained from the Modi wave in the state and exasperation of the public against the Gandhi family who has been showing up only for elections. In fact, this time around Rahul who has been busy campaigning across the country, never even bothered to show up at his constituency. He sent his sister, Priyanka Gandhi to take up the mantle. Priyanka was welcomed with posters asking on her brother’s no-show. And, she too was criticized for showing up once in every five years. The tide has turned Irani who garnered a margin 49.7% votes, had countered a lack of Gandhi disinterest, with spirited campaigning. She had reached out to people, spoke to them, challenged dynasty politics and asked why Rahul was missing at the constituency for 15 years. When Rahul sensed the turning tide, he decided to contest from Waynad when she accused him of “running”. The stage for this victory was set in 2014 itself when BJP fielded Irani against Gandhi. Until then, few parties ever bothered to field their best candidates which includes regional parties like Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Samajwadi Party (SP). BJP refused to back down on this Congress stronghold which brought on this victory today. Last elections too, she managed to reduce Rahul’s margin who won only by a lakh votes. The firebrand Irani is a well-known face across the country, thanks to being a lead star in a soap opera which ran for over 15 years, Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi (Every mother-in-law was once was a daughter-in-law) She had played a soft spoken and hence an ideal wife in the hit TV series. But she blossomed to become one of the most outspoken of ministers in Modi’s cabinet which is not actually known for diplomatic people. She had come down on people in favour of Narendra Modi, the prime minister. Her speeches ranged from angry to emotional to exasperation; taking her leader’s word to media channels across issues. She<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PlGs8NCMWE"> defended her government</a> for charging Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students with sedition law, saying they have been engaged in “unlawful activities”. She was<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8iqdNm3egk"> moved by the suicide</a> of a dalit student Rohith Vemula led to riots; and blamed the political forces; blaming people for “using his (Rohith’s) body as a political tool”. Irani has in fact been called ‘Modi’s Sushma’ after she comfortably took up the mantle as veteran BJP politician Sushma Swaraj moved away from active politics. However, it is interesting to note that Irani who is mentored by late union telecom minister Pramod Mahajan never started as a Modi fan. In fact, she had blamed Modi for BJP’s<a href="https://www.outlookindia.com/newswire/story/smriti-irani-drama-slams-modi-first-withdraws-statement-hours-later/267055"> loss in 2004</a>, and said that it is unethical of him to stay on in power after the Gujarat riots. Just like Modi, she made a comeback, and that too to a historic success.

Smriti Irani: The woman who broke the Congress bastion

<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=smriti+irani&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Smriti </a><a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=smriti+irani&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Irani</a>’s demotion has surprised many the same ways as it had when she was appointed as the Union Human Resources Development minister by <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=prime+minister+narendra+modi&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Prime Minister Narendra Modi</a>. 
 
In the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=modi+cabinet+reshuffle&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Modi Cabinet rejig</a>, her demotion to Textiles Ministry is also stunning, but many predicted that she won’t be able to hold on to education ministry for long. 
 
Several issues eclipsed her stint at the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=HRD+ministry&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">HRD ministry</a>, starting with her degree controversy. 
 
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Irani was mired in a controversy over her claims of possessing a Yale degree. Secondly, she scrapped the four-year format at the Delhi University and went back with the three-year format, which was against the wishes of the VC and UGC. 
 
The HRD Ministry was also at loggerheads with the Niti Ayog over accreditation and other issues. Experts say Irani took Niti Ayog as interference. 
 
Her handling of suicide case of Dalit scholar at Hyderabad Central University, Rohith Vemula, was also criticised by many. 
 
The recent Jawaharlal Nehru University row involving Kanhaiya Kumar also didn’t add to her sheen. Irani also played with fire when replaced German with Sanskrit as the third language in Kendriya Vidyalayas in 2014. 
 
Irani was also at the centre of the controversy when she was accused of intervening in the affairs of IIT-Delhi prompting the resignation of Director RK Shevgaonkar, two years before his term. 
 
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