St Stephen’s College on Tuesday reduced the cut-off marks for tribal Christian students, a day before Delhi High Court is to hear a petition against the institution’s decision to hike the qualifying marks. The college issued a corrigendum reducing the cut-off marks for Christian Scheduled Tribes (CST) to values lower than or equal to the Christian Others (COTH) cut-off marks. For BSc mathematics admissions, the general category cut-off is 97.5 per cent, the SC/ST and CST cut-off is 92.75, and the COTH cut-off is 82.5 per cent for students who took commerce in Class XII. Vacant CST seats were expected to be included in the COTH category, which would have facilitated the admission of a greater number of south Indian Christians. Such students make up the bulk of applicants in the COTH category.

Source: The Telegraph July 03, 2019 01:03 UTC