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SC Allows UGC to Notify Caste-Based Discrimination Rules

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April 25, 2025

The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the University Grants Commission (UGC) to notify its regulations for preventing caste-based discrimination in higher educational institutions, clarifying that a recent judgment of the top court setting up a National Task Force (NTF) to recommend measures to prevent student suicides will not come in the way of this process.

- Abraham Thomas

NEW DELHI:

The order of the court came in a public interest litigation filed in 2019 by the mothers of Rohit Vemula and Payal Tadvi—students who died by suicide due to alleged caste-based discrimination in 2016 and 2019, respectively—seeking a robust mechanism to ensure such incidents are prevented and addressed by authorities in time.

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