HYDERABAD: Hyderabad based Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU), a central university, took a decision to offer 10 percent weightage marks for local students in entrance examinations for admissions into the B.Ed, M.Ed and Diploma in Engineering programs offered at various campuses of the university, to a maximum of 30 percent students of the approved intake for the courses.
The notification bears significance as the university which has its main campus in Hyderabad has colleges located in Jammu and Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Maharashtra and Karnataka.
The decision of giving 10 percent weightage would be implemented in all these states. As of now, a majority of the students in the main and offsite campuses of MANUU, belong from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
According to a notification released by the MANUU Registrar, Academic Council (AC) of the university approved the weightage of 10 percent in all College of Teacher Education, Department of Education and Training and at all MANUU Polytechnics. The entrance test for these programs was held on May 26 and 27.
The decision was taken by AC in its meeting held on June 4 after taking note of the under representation of local students in various programmes run by the university in its main campus at Hyderabad and at its satellite campuses. The AC observed that this eventually led to skewed regional equity of students.
The AC considered recommendations of a Committee constituted by the Vice-Chancellor to examine the measures for enhancing local representation of students in its constituent colleges, which was of the view that there should be necessary provisions for preferential treatment for native students in admissions to maintain the equity and diversity.