‘Diluted Existing Rules’: Rohith Vemula, Payal Tadvi’s Mothers Slam UGC's Draft Equity Regulations
Sukanya Shantha | 26 March 2025 | The Wire
The recently submitted draft of the University Grants Commission (UGC) (Promotion of Equity in Higher Educational Institutions) Regulations, 2025, is expected to cause “administrative chaos,” according to the mothers of Rohith Vemula and Payal Tadvi, two students who died following alleged institutionalised caste discrimination.
The UGC submitted the new draft to the Supreme Court last month in a six-year-old petition filed by Radhika Vemula and Abeda Tadvi. In the petition, the two mothers, after losing their children, sought accountability and the establishment of adequate mechanisms by the UGC to address caste-based discrimination in university spaces…