DUTA's National Convention Demands Withdrawal of UGC's 5th March Notification on Reservation Roster Speakers at the DUTA'S National Convention on 'The Question of Representation in Higher Education', unanimously responded to a crisis of social-justice caused by the 5th March 2018 Notification of the UGC instructing universities and colleges to reformulate the Reservation Roster for appointments by counting subject-wise departments (and not whole institutions) as units. The UGC Notification has hastily tried to implement a controversial Supreme Court Order on Reservations even as the Government, and the UGC itself, have sought a Review of the Order through a Special Leave Petition. The Supreme Court Order has set aside the earlier practice of formulating a 200-point Roster based on institutions counted as one unit. Its recommendation of having a department-wise Roster will ensure that all academic departments that have a small numerical strength wi
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