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24 June 2016
PRESS
RELEASE
AICSU welcomes stay granted by the
Guwahati High Court this morning of the Mizoram (Selection of Candidates for
Higher Technical Courses) Rules of 2016
New Delhi: The All India Chakma Students Union
(AICSU) welcomes the stay order granted by the Honourable Guwahati High Court
this morning i.e. 24 June 2016 on the operation of the Mizoram (Selection of Candidates
for Higher Technical Courses) Rules of 2016 on the PIL No. 49/2016 filed by the
Mizoram Chakma Students Union (MCSU) challenging the Mizoram (Selection of Candidates
for Higher Technical Courses) Rules, 2016 which was notified on 20th April 2016 by the Higher and Technical
Education Department of Mizoram.
The Mizoram (Selection of Candidates for
Higher Technical Courses) Rules, 2016 reserve 95% seats for Category I
(Zo-ethnic people) while giving only 4% seats to Category II (Non-Zo ethnic
people including Chakmas who are scheduled tribes and more backward than the
Mizos) and 1% to children of Central government employees posted in Mizoram.
Further, the State Medical and Technical Entrance Examination Information
Brochure 2016” provides that Category I candidates (Mizos) will get first
priority to take the seats/colleges and only the left out seat, if any, will be
given to Category II candidates i.e. Chakmas and other non Mizo scheduled Tribes.
This means effectively reserving 100% of the seats for the ethnic Mizos.
The Higher and Technical Education
Department has declared the allotment of seats but it is found that not a
single seat in Engineering or MBBS has been allotted to Category II. This means
that Chakma students despite scoring good marks in the State Medical and Technical
Entrance Examination of 2016
would not get any MBBS or Engineering college despite being Scheduled Tribes
like the Mizos.
Earlier in 2015 the Mizoram Chakma
Students Union (MCSU) had filed a PIL (no. 39/2015) in Guwahati High Court
challenging the Mizoram (Selection of Candidates for Higher Technical Courses)
(Sixth Amendment) Rules of 2015 by dividing the Scheduled Tribes into
indigenous i.e. Mizos and non indigenous (non-Mizo scheduled tribes) and
reserving all the seats for the indigenous ethnic Zos. On 16 July 2015, the
Guwahati High Court disposed of the PIL after the Mizoram government withdrew
the Sixth Amendment Rules of 2015 and put the Chakmas under Category I
(indigenous people).
But this year again, the Mizoram
government issued fresh notice and played fraud upon the Hon’ble Guwahati High
Court as it included Chakmas under Category II under the Mizoram (Selection of
Candidates for Higher Technical Courses) Rules of 2016 by effectively providing
100% reservation of seats for the ethnic Zos. [Ends]
