HC reserves order on plea of students against GGSI University

Updated on: Monday, November 21, 2011

The Delhi High Court today reserved its verdict on a plea alleging Guru Govind Singh Indraprashtha University (GGSIU) adopted different criteria for promoting its professional courses students belonging to the colleges run by it, discriminating students of those affiliated to it.

A bench of Acting Chief Justice A K Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw reserved the judgement after it concluded hearing on the petition filed by over 200 hundred students of private colleges which are affiliated to the university.

The students of private institutes have alleged the "discriminatory" approach of the university towards them has been harming their careers. Concluding arguments on behalf of students, advocate Geeta Luthra said the colleges, run by the university, are allowed to give maximum 40 per cent marks to students in internal assessments while colleges, which are affiliated and not run by the university, can give maximum 25 per cent marks to their students in internal assessments.

This practice was "irrational" and against the legal principles, she added. The students, pursuing professional courses like B.Tech in affiliated colleges were being evaluated by the university on rest 75 per cent marks, she said.

While the students of university-run colleges are "better placed" as the varsity can evaluate them on the rest 60 percent as the maximum limit of internal assessment is 40 percent, she said. The counsel for the university, however, justified the approach saying this was adopted to maintain the quality of technical education. Moreover, such rules were there and were never objected to before, he added.

Earlier, the court had taken a serious note the issue saying "why do you (University) have two different standards for students ?" "The University cannot create two classes of students and the policy has to be based on uniform application and it cannot affect the same set of people in different manners,"
the students' petition has alleged.

More than 5600 students have been denied promotion in the current academic year because of the "discriminatory" rules, Luthra had said. The petition has also raised the issue of credit system in which a student is required to "score overall 90 percent credit of previous years" to get promoted to the next academic year.

HC reserves order on plea of students against GGSI University

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