JNU to bring back deprivation point model for PhD students: VC Santishree

The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is planning to bring back the most unique feature of its admission policy – the deprivation point model — for PhD students, Vice Chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit has said.

The university had devised a deprivation point model to help students from backward regions, especially women, take admission.

It was discontinued a few years back under the stewardship of the previous VC of the university, M Jagadesh Kumar, amid strident denunciation by a section of students.

The reinstating of the deprivation model has been a long pending demand of students and teachers.

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