BARTI’s Parade Priorities Leave SC Students in Crisis
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While the Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Research and Training Institute (BARTI) parades the Constitution in its much-publicized “Dindi” from June 19 to July 5, its core mission—supporting marginalized students—is being dangerously ignored. Thousands of Scheduled Caste (SC) students are stuck waiting for the institute’s free JEE and NEET coaching to begin, even as private institutes started months ago. For many low-income families, BARTI’s coaching is the only lifeline to crack top exams and secure futures in IITs, NITs, and medical colleges. That lifeline is now fraying.
It’s been over a month since Class 10 results came out, yet there’s no clarity, no timeline, no urgency. Parents and students are growing desperate, visiting BARTI centers in vain, only to be met with silence or vague answers. The delay could derail hundreds of talented SC students’ futures—while BARTI staff stay busy organizing parades.
To make matters worse, students who applied for BARTI’s foreign scholarship program are also in limbo. With international admission deadlines closing in, the scholarship list hasn’t been released. Dreams of global education hang by a thread, again due to bureaucratic apathy.
Spreading constitutional values is important—but abandoning the very youth the Constitution seeks to empower is hypocritical. If BARTI doesn’t snap out of its parade pageantry and act fast, it risks betraying the aspirations of an entire generation of SC students.
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