Bias Study Renaming Sparks Bias Charge, Academics Slam UGC Move
Basant Kumar Mohanty | 28 October 2024 | The Telegraph
The University Grants Commission has replaced “social exclusion” with “social inclusion” in the name of a scheme that promotes research on caste discrimination and B.R. Ambedkar’s philosophy, triggering charges of an agenda against the marginalised.
At a meeting in June, the higher education regulator decided to rename the scheme, Centres for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, as Establishment of Centre for the Study of Social Inclusion, two officials from two central universities said….