Watch | Are Students of Reserved Categories Being Deliberately Kept Out of Academia?

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Uploaded: 2021-12-26T11:12:12+05:30
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Description: The 'viva scam' and interviews at JNU and GB Pant Social Science Research Institute respectively raise serious questions.

The 'viva scam' and interviews at JNU and GB Pant Social Science Research Institute respectively raise serious questions.

Mukul Singh Chauhan

The 'viva scam' and interviews at JNU and GB Pant Social Science Research Institute respectively raise serious questions.

watch are students of reserved categories being deliberately kept out of academia

In appointments to the positions of professor, assistant professor and associate professor, held at Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Research Institute in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, there has been a controversy over the institution's announcement that it has not got 'qualified candidates' for seats reserved for Other Backward Classes.

Simultaneously, talk of a "viva scam" has also come to the fore in JNU.

This raises the question of whether deliberate efforts are being made to keep reserved category students away from the academic world.

Mukul Singh Chauhan of The Wire speaks to Laxman Yadav, assistant professor of Delhi University.

This article went live on December twenty-sixth, two thousand twenty one, at twelve minutes past eleven in the morning.

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