Summary:
However, Jamia Milia Islamia is a minority institution.BJP leader and Aligarh MP Satish Gautam, who demanded reservation for the SC/ST students in AMU, stated that now everything is crystal clear. He said that AMU should not have any objection in implementing the reservations system as Minority Commission has also clarified in writing.However, president of AMU students union Mashkoor Ahmad Usmani said that Minority Commission needs to re-check its documents. The deadline expires on August 3.The university clarified that AMU has never followed the policy of reserving seats for Muslims. “It rather reserves 50 percent seats for internal students regardless of their religion or caste. However, AMU administration was not able to provide documents to support their claim of being a minority institution.They had been given a month’s time to prove it..