A Petition Asked for UGC’s Anti-Discrimination Rules to Be Enforced. UGC Diluted the Rules Instead
Johanna Deeksha | 10 March 2025 | Scroll.in
In August 2019, Radhika Vemula and Abeda Salim Tadvi, the mothers of Rohith Vemula and Payal Tadvi, filed a public interest litigation in the Supreme Court.
The petitioners, both of whose children had died by suicide, allegedly after being subjected to caste discrimination in the campuses in which they were studying, made a list of demands aimed at combating discrimination in Indian educational institutions.
Key among these demands was the enforcement of 2012 University Grants Commission regulations that sought to protect vulnerable students from discriminatory behaviour….