Minority status won't affect Jamia's secular nature: VC

Updated on: Saturday, February 26, 2011

Jamia Milia Islamia Vice Chancellor Najeeb Jung sought to allay apprehensions that implementation of the minority status would have negative effects on the character and quality of education of the institution.

Addressing students and teachers of the varsity for the first time since the minority status was given to JMU, Jung said Jamia will remain as secular an institution as it has been since its establishment in 1920.

The minority status will allow the university to reserve 50 per cent of its seats for Muslim candidates and do away with the SC/ST quota.

"It is wrong to assume that with reservation, communalism or fundamentalism will creep into Jamia," he said.

He said it is a "sensitive decision" taken by the government and was a social rather than a communal move.

"Muslims of the country needed this assurance as they are lagging behind other communities in education," he said.

He said the university was in no hurry to implement the ruling and would wait for the orders from the Centre.

"I and my teachers will ensure that the quality of education at Jamia is not affected," he said.

Minority status won't affect Jamia's secular nature: VC

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