Grant medals without bias,HC tells Jamia Millia Islamia

A day after Jamia Millia Islamia earned the status of the first Central university to be granted minority status,the Delhi High Court on Wednesday ordered that the institution should have a gold medal distribution policy which is absolutely free of caprice and bias.

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A day after Jamia Millia Islamia earned the status of the first Central university to be granted minority status,the Delhi High Court on Wednesday ordered that the institution should have a gold medal distribution policy which is absolutely free of caprice and bias.

The gold medals must be given in accordance with the guidelines henceforth. The institution must avoid methods that could smack of caprice or bias. Let the guidelines be framed within six weeks from now for the grant of gold medals,so students have no grievances regarding the manner in which they are judged, a divisionbench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna held.

Asad Alvi,counsel for petitioner Aishwarya Pathak,had earlier sought judicial intervention by stating that the University did not have a rational gold medal policy. After noting that the matter involved general public interest,the petition was converted into a PIL by a Single Judge Bench. Pathak,an LLM student of Jamia,referred to a RTI correspondence between him and the university where the latter claimed that though it does not follow any guidelines for conferring gold medals,they are usually given on merit.

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However,when Pathak asked what merit means,Jamia answered that the definition of merit was self-explanatory and it was a matter of tradition that had been followed in Jamia for many years.

Amused that a Central government institution could distribute gold medals on the basis of tradition and not law,Pathak had filed the petition that came up for hearing before the Division Bench in December. Jamia was asked to file a reply affidavit to his contentions.

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Grant medals without bias,HC tells Jamia Millia Islamia

A day after Jamia Millia Islamia earned the status of the first Central university to be granted minority status,the Delhi High Court on Wednesday ordered that the institution should have a gold medal distribution policy which is absolutely free of caprice and bias.

A day after Jamia Millia Islamia earned the status of the first Central university to be granted minority status,the Delhi High Court on Wednesday ordered that the institution should have a gold medal distribution policy which is absolutely free of caprice and bias.