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Karnataka
By Our Staff Correspondent
The President of the DYFI, K.N.Umesh, told presspersons here on Friday that the Government should act tough with the managements. People were behind the Government in the matter and, hence, it should not yield to the pressure by the managements. He, however, expressed apprehension over the Government's commitment to social justice and said: "The leaders controlling the managements are part of the Government. In Karnataka, it is almost a custom that a leader owning a number of professional institutions heads the Ministry of Higher Education. People have lost faith in the Government. It is up to the Congress High Command and the Chief Minister, S.M.Krishna, to come to the rescue of the poor and restore their confidence in the party." On the CET system, Mr. Umesh said the Government was responsible for the crisis. It failed to take legal action on time or pass a legislation to circumvent the Supreme Court's verdict. The private colleges made profits with only 15 per cent of seats allocated to them in the past. They were seeking an increase in the fee structure even after bagging a higher percentage of seats. He said the DYFI would block roads and trains on May 21 in protest against the Government's move to "dilute" the CET system and aid the phased commercialisation of the education sector. It would organise a round table of leaders, legal experts, and social activists in Bangalore on May 24 to find ways to save 13,500 employees, whose recruitment under the rural grace marks scheme had been set aside by the court. Mr. Umesh said that in 1975, the court rescinded similar action by the Uttar Pradesh Government. Later in 1982, an attempt by the Maharashtra Government to provide grace marks to candidates from rural areas was thwarted by the court. The Haryana Government faced the wrath of the court in 1984 in the matter. In 1995, the action of the Andhra Pradesh Government to help candidates from rural areas was declared null and void. But the Karnataka Government failed to learn any lesson from these precedents. The S. Bangarappa Government introduced five per cent grace marks for rural candidates in the recruitment to government jobs through an amendment to the State Civil Services Rules. The J.H.Patel Government increased it to 10 per cent. The Ramakrishna Commission recommended 15 per cent jobs for candidates from rural areas under the reservation category and another 15 per cent jobs under the general category. The High Court struck down the Government's action on November 11, 1998. However, the recruitment based on rural weightage continued for over a year until November 25, 1999 when the full Bench of the court upheld the earlier verdict. The DYFI had staged a demonstration at Gajendragad in 2000. But the Government did not take steps to set right the problem. Instead, it allowed police to foist "attempt to murder" cases against 69 DYFI members who took part in the demonstration, he said. Mr. Umesh said the Supreme Court upheld the lower court's verdict in the matter on May 6 and asked the Government to terminate 13,500 employees from service. The Government had sought four weeks' time to obey the order. The Centre should promulgate an Ordinance and enable the State Government to solve the crisis. He said the DYFI would organise a convention of "prerakas" and "upa-prerakas" of Saksharata Kalika Kendras in the State at Basavakalyan in Bidar District on May 26. N.K. Subramanya, Convenor of the district unit of the DYFI, spoke.
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