Activists share experiences on caste discrimination in institutes

Barun Kumar, 30, belongs to other backward classes but joined the anti-reservation movement during his college days. However, I was never accepted in the group even though I got admission through merit,” said Kumar, a law graduate from Patna. He was a part of the gathering of students and human rights lawyers, most of them belonging to backward classes, at TISS in Chembur on Monday. Organised by Human Rights Law Network, the meeting sought to devise an action plan to prevent discrimination in colleges. Kranti, 32, a lawyer who heads the Mumbai chapter of HRLN, alleged that some colleges in Maharashtra allot a separate division to students from scheduled castes and scheduled tribes.