Amidst all the controversies and protests over the reservations at St Stevens, Reality Check India takes a different stance and says:
St Stephens and all other minority institutes must admit at least 80-90% students from their own community. Otherwise, it just turns into a “regular college with management belonging to the minority community”. St Johns and CMC Vellore are examples where a large majority of students and even faculty are from the Christian community. I believe CMC Vellore at least is doing good service to its community. St Stephens must also be free to follow their lead.
I agree with parts of their argument: St Stevens being a privately-owned and run college (affiliation to a university does not matter), they should be free to choose who they hire and who they don’t. I disagree, however, that they must admit a majority of students from their own community: in the end, the market and education economics will take care of the price on the demand-and-supply curve.
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The educational institutions run by Christain missionaries are doing little more than getting “back to Jesus”, as Father Emmanuelpput it, as they have largely failed to achieve the original objective for which they were set up. Even if they are fully funded by public money, the constitution permits such institutions to be run by the minorites the way the want to.
But will the increased quotas really help or will the lead to more rigid religious insulation?
the college must do it.