UGC\u2019s 2026 equity regulations, notified January 13, have triggered student protests from Delhi to Lucknow, political heat, and a Supreme Court PIL targeting Regulation 3(1)(c). It defines caste-based discrimination as discrimination against SC, ST and OBC members. Protesters fear misuse, burden-of-proof issues and \u201csurveillance\u201d via Equity Squads, while the Centre says misuse won\u2019t be allowed and clarifications are coming soon.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
UGC\u2019s 2026 equity regulations, notified January 13, have triggered student protests from Delhi to Lucknow, political heat, and a Supreme Court PIL targeting Regulation 3(1)(c). It defines caste-based discrimination as discrimination against SC, ST and OBC members. Protesters fear misuse, burden-of-proof issues and \u201csurveillance\u201d via Equity Squads, while the Centre says misuse won\u2019t be allowed… Read More »Protests, PIL and campus pushback: Why UGC’s equity rules have opened a can of worms<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":88272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}