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Delhi HC seeks staff details from Jamia after PIL flags outsourced agency recruiting from “one particular religion”

The Indian Express·Sohini Ghosh·20 days ago
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The petition submitted that a "disproportionately large number of such outsourced employees (720 out of 986) belong to a particular community," while alleging discrimination. (File Photo) The Delhi High Court has asked Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) University to furnish details of posts for various staff, after a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) taken up on Wednesday flagged that a private agency, to which the varsity has outsourced the recruitment of non-teaching staff, is “recruiting those from one religion.” The PIL, filed by Ram Niwas Singh, an employee at JMI, challenged a notification issued by the varsity on March 24 approving the continued engagement of 986 outsourced employees recruited through a firm — Everest Human Resource Consultants — as non-teaching staff. The petition submitted that a “disproportionately large number of such outsourced employees (720 out of 986) belong to a particular community,” while alleging discrimination.…

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