Vinay Kumar

A November 2024 office memorandum of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment makes NFSC eligibility conditional upon NAAC accreditation of the student’s previous university. The SC formed National Task Force must recognise this as a glaring violation of the Court’s own precedents.

Once imagined as a corrective measure to support Bahujan PhD candidates, the NFSC has sadly reproduced the endless waiting and humiliation which has historically characterised the bureaucracy’s repressive treatment of marginalised communities.

In its recent judgement, the High Court ruled that no student enrolled in any recognized law college, university or institution in India shall be detained from taking examinations on grounds of lack of attendance.

Recent violence in the tribal majority border region has so far seen four deaths and over seventy injuries. For policymakers, this must be a reminder that the longer Ladakh’s constitutional fate hangs in limbo, the longer the risks of radicalisation remain.