Mangalore University has decided to reserve a seat in each of the post-graduate courses offered in the varsity for Kashmiri Pandits and the process will start with the admissions from the academic year 2020-21, reports Times Of India.

The move comes after Ministry of Human Resource Development’s (MHRD) department of higher education issued a directive to the universities to reserve seats in their PG courses for wards of Kashmiri Pandits.

University’s Vice-Chancellor P S Yadapadithaya informed the first special meeting of the varsity’s academic council that the reservation will be made under the merit quota and will be on par with the seat reserved for meritorious students seeking admission under NCC, NSS and sports quotas.

If the seat remained vacant by virtue of not receiving the applications, it will not be filled by alloting it to other students, Yadapadithaya added.

The university also plans to install bio-metric system for attendance for both teachers and students in a bid to make university litigation free.

“We are planning to install CCTVs inside the classrooms and in more locations in the campuses,” Yadapadithaya was quoted in the report as saying.

Also, the university plans to appoint retired professionals and experts as coordinators for various study chairs and centres in the varsity in a bid to allow teachers to focus on research and teaching.