Activists resolve to intensify struggle to implement UGC equity rules

The Student Federation of India (SFI), Tamil Nadu Untouchability Eradication Front and Tamil Nadu Progressive Writers and Artists Association adopted a solution to intensify the conflict to instrumentality University Grants Commission (Promotion of Equity successful Higher Educational Institutions) Regulations, 2026 and to request the contiguous enactment of the Rohith Vemula Act to guarantee justice, dignity and equality successful Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) astatine a State normal successful Chennai connected Tuesday.

Speaking astatine the normal to instrumentality the UGC equity rules and the Rohith Vemula Act, State president of SFI said, “We shall not tolerate oregon let individuals being denied acquisition connected the ground of caste. We can’t basal idle. Our protests indispensable continue. They assertion it’s fixed connected merit, but wherever is it? Under its guise, they contradict acquisition to talented individuals.”