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SC to hear today pleas challenging UGC rules
Hindustan Times Noida
|January 29, 2026
The Supreme Court will on Thursday hear three petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the University Grants Commission (Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions)
Regulations, 2026, after one of the pleas was urgently mentioned before Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Wednesday.The development came after advocate Parth Yadav mentioned the petition on behalf of activist and entrepreneur Rahul Dewan before the CJI on Wednesday morning, Yadav urged the court to take up the matter urgently, submitting that the operation of the regulations would lead to discrimination and that the issue required immediate judicial scrutiny.
Responding to the request, CJI Kant agreed to consider assigning an early date of hearing and asked counsel to remove all defects in the petition so that the matter could be listed.
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