Congress leader B. Manickam Tagore has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking an investigation into violation of reservation policies for Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and Other Backward Class students by deemed Universities, including some prominent ones such as Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani and Vellore Institute of Technology.
“The underrepresentation of these communities not only hampers the diversity within these institutions but also perpetuates social disparities. I urge you to direct the concerned authorities to investigate and take necessary actions to rectify the inadequacies in the implementation of reservation policies,” the Member of Parliament from Tamil Nadu wrote.
In his letter he attached a list of 20 engineering institutions providing their percentage of SC/ST and OBC students, which in some cases was as low as 2% to 5%.
