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Supreme Court to hear plea challenging recruitment in English and Foreign Language University

The Supreme Court to hear plea filed by senior congress party leader Sravan Dasoju against the English and Foreign Language University (EFLU) challenging the order passed by Telangana High Court wherein the court had allowed EFLU to start its recruitment process.
The Bench led by Justice D.Y. Chandrachud will hear the matter after 2weeks.
EFLU is a Central University established by the English and Foreign Languages University Act, 2006 having campuses at Hyderabad, Shillong and Lucknow. The petitioner had issued a notification in 2019 calling for applications from eligible candidates for recruitment to 52 vacancies in the cadres of Professor, Associate Professor and Assistant Professor in various departments.
It was the case of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, National Commission for Backward Classes and Dr. Sravan Dasoju, National Spokesperson, Congress that the notification violated provisions for OBC reservation and further demands to stop the recruitment process.
The National Commission for Backward Classes has sent letters to EFLU asking the authorities to comply with the provisions of OBC. The National Commission for Backward Classes asking The English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU) to put on holds the recruitment process. NCBC directed the Vice-Chancellor and Registrar of the University to appear before it.
Earlier, Sravan has submitted a representation to National Commission for Backward classes complaining about the deliberate denial of OBC quota by violating the rule of reservation according to the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Teachers Cadre) Act, 2019. Thereafter, NCBC had issued notice to EFLU to submit their 
report regarding the implementation of OBC reservations.
In 2018, Parliament passed the Constitution (102, Amendment) Act, 2018 inserting new Article 338B elevating the National Commission for Backward Classes to the status of a Constitutional Body.
Sravan in an interview once stated, “OBC candidates must be given at least 27% of reservation for their academics as well as for their employment. But nowhere in the country, is this 27% margin being fulfilled. On behalf of the Congress party, we have been raising this issue for the last couple of months. This gross injustice should be curtailed.”
The Telangana High court observed that, “we hold on the point that when there is no substantive power or jurisdiction conferred on the commission under Art.338B of the constitution to grant orders in the nature of injunctions, temporary or permanent, prohibit or mandatory, put on hold or stop orders of any nature, by the way of subordinate Legislation or by exercising rulemaking power under Clause (4) of Article 338B, the commission cannot confer power on itself to prohibit the taking of any action by any Authority till the completion of inquiry in the matter by it.”
Case name-Sravan Dasoju Vs. The English and Foreign Languages University

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