R.Christodas Gandhi, IAS(Retd),
Former Additional Chief Secretary to Government of
TamilNadu,
Chairman REEDA, President AMBU,
President PAALAM, President AKAM,
President Carrom Association TamilNadu,
To,
Rev. Fr.Dr.G. Pushparaj, S.J.
Founder General Secretary,
Consortium of Christian Minority Higher Educational
Institutions,
ST.Joseph's college.
Trichy - 620 002.
We
gather that the members of Consortium of
Christian Minority Higher Education Institutions
are getting together to discuss how post-matric scholarship (PMS) sanctioned to
students of SCs and STs need not be made applicable to your institutions.(St.Joseph’s College Tiruchy on 25.05.2014)
The intention is preposterous and
malignant to Christian faith. It appears that a mischievous propaganda is being
systemically spread that Christian minority institutions have no bounden
mission or any Christian compulsion to admit students from SC and ST
communities, even if they belong to Christian faith or even to care about the
scholarship extended by governments to them.
The obdurate adherence to minority
privileges is being resorted to for excluding SCs and STs even though they
belong to the same minorities. It is unchristian-like to say that Christian
minority institutions have no responsibility, strategy or finances towards SC
Christians.
Minority privileges should not be
invoked to provide services to non-minority community candidates who are ready
to fill your coffers at the cost of SC Christians. In other words Christian
minority institutions should not play the sham game of excluding SC/ST
Christians who form 60% to 80%of Christians in India.
The catholic stand taken by the
Tamil Nadu Government nearly 37 years ago to extend the privileges of SCs also
to minority Christian SC-converts mocks
at the stand that your consortium is about to take, particularly, to exclude SC
Christians from minority purview. We strongly appeal to you to desist from
entertaining any notions or practices of excluding SCs of any faith in general
and SC Christians in particular. We also would like to remind you that, many of
the SCs in general and SC Christian students in particular, through their
genuine hard work, score higher marks than many others.
For the limited purposes of the meeting
of your consortium on 25/05/2014 at St. Joseph’s College, Thiruchirapally
please prevail upon your institutions to admit not less than 40% to 50% SCs of
any hues (SCs of Hindu, Christian, Sikhor Buddhist origin) at no cost. The
scholarship that the government extends to every one of them (subject to income
ceiling viz Rs 2.5 lakhs per annum for SCs and Rs.2 lakhs for SC Christians) is
generous enough to run your institutions. Whatever more your institutions may
require can and should be collected from the rest-whomsoever you deem fit to
admit. If this ratio could not be followed there is no point in claiming
yourselves to be charitable institutions supposedly working with the missionary
zeal and based on the Gospel values that have been handed down to you by the Divine
Person on the cross.
DATED 23.05.2014
Yours,
RCG
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