Apna Dal (Sonelal) national president Ashish Patel on Monday said that the future of meritorious students of reserved category looking for jobs in higher education institutes would be marred if recruitment was done on the basis of roster system.
Patel urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to bring an ordinance to stop the recruitment process immediately so that the future of applicants of reserved category could be saved.
The Apna Dal leader said the Prime Minister should take initiative to save the future of students of reserved category as he did in the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes Act issue.
“The number of youths of reserved category is already very low in higher educational institutes. If professors are recruited on the basis of roster system, then the number of professors of reserved category will further go down,” he pointed out.
Patel said that a wrong message went down to the Backwards and SC, ST members after the apex court rejected a writ on the issue last week.
“People of these categories are under the impression that the Central government did not pursue the case properly and the facts related to the roster system were not put in a proper way before the apex court and this was why it was turned down by the court.
Patel said that Union minister Anupriya Patel had urged the Centre to put the roster system on hold in the monsoon session in July last year, to which the government had agreed.
“The Centre had stopped recruitment through roster system till the apex court decided the matter. Now that the court has dismissed the Union government’s writ, the only way out is to bring an ordinance to stop recruitment through roster system,” he said.