JKSA slams Delhi University for ‘profiling’ Kashmiri students, seeks Amit Shah’s intervention

Jammu and Kashmir college students demanded for a transparent pointers to make sure that no academic establishment engages in regional, ethnic, or spiritual profiling of scholars beneath any circumstance.

NEW DELHI: Amid rising issues over the protection and harassment of Kashmiri college students, Delhi College (DU) has come beneath sharp criticism for in search of private particulars solely from college students belonging to Jammu and Kashmir. The Jammu and Kashmir College students Affiliation (JKSA) has written to Union house minister Amit Shah, in search of quick intervention over what they describe as a “discriminatory directive” focusing on Kashmiri college students.

A number of DU-affiliated faculties have reportedly obtained directions to gather private data — together with everlasting handle, contact quantity, e-mail ID, and course particulars — from college students of Jammu and Kashmir. An e-mail concerning this was despatched from the Proctor’s Workplace, triggering outrage amongst college students and leaving many anxious concerning the potential misuse of their private particulars.

The topic line of the e-mail learn: “Submission of Aadhar Quantity and Residential Deal with (Delhi Hostel/PG)”. It said: “We now have obtained a communication from the Proctor’s workplace, College of Delhi, requesting college students from Jammu & Kashmir to supply their Aadhar Quantity and Residential Deal with (for these residing in Delhi Hostels/PGs or comparable lodging). Please observe that the deadline for submitting this data is 10:00 AM on twenty ninth April 2025.”

The knowledge is for the Proctor’s Workplace to “keep correct scholar information,” in accordance with an screenshot of the e-mail shared by JKSA.

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JK college students make 3 calls for

In a proper letter to the Union house minister, the JKSA made three key calls for:

• Fast withdrawal of the directive or round profiling college students from Jammu and Kashmir.
• A public assertion from Delhi College authorities disavowing such discriminatory practices.
• Clear pointers to make sure that no academic establishment engages in regional, ethnic, or spiritual profiling of scholars beneath any circumstance.

“Targeting students from Jammu and Kashmir on this method suggests an alarming sample of selective surveillance that alienates youth and casts unwarranted suspicion on their intent, identification, and patriotism. Such profiling isn’t solely discriminatory but additionally violates the rules of equality, dignity, and non-discrimination enshrined within the Structure,” the affiliation wrote.

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Transfer contradicts PM Modi’s imaginative and prescient

The JKSA additional argued that profiling a selected group undermines India’s pluralistic and inclusive identification, stating: “It contradicts Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s repeated commitments to win the hearts and minds of Jammu and Kashmir’s youth and solely widens the emotional distance between Kashmir and the remainder of the nation.”

Dissatisfied with DU’s response that the directive got here from the ministry of house affairs (MHA), the JKSA mentioned such reasoning is “unacceptable”, as college students already submit private knowledge through the admission course of.

The affiliation added: “What is required is empathy, not surveillance. What’s required is partnership, not profiling. Universities should be bastions of freedom, thought, and dignity—not instruments of securitization and suspicion.”

“Are these actions meant to recommend that college students from Jammu and Kashmir are lesser residents? Are they to be seen as suspects in their very own nation? Academic establishments should be areas of security, studying, and inclusion—not of surveillance and exclusion. The silence and ambiguity from college authorities solely deepen the scholars’ sense of marginalization,” it added.