Hyderabad, April 17 The Telangana government on Friday constituted a Cabinet Sub-Committee to study and recommend legislation on the "Rohit Vemula Telangana (Prevention of Identity Based Discrimination in Higher Education) Bill, 2026.
The five-member committed is led by Deputy Chief Minister and Minister for Finance & Planning and Energy, Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka.
Ministers N. Uttam Kumar Reddy, Damodar Rajanarasimha, Duddilla Sridhar Babu and Ponnam Prabhakar are the members
Chief Secretary K. Ramakrishna Rao on Friday issued a Government Order (GO) in this regard.
Sabyasachi Ghosh, the Special Chief Secretary to government's Scheduled Caste Development Department, will be the convenor of the Sub-Committee.
The Cabinet Sub-Committee will submit its recommendations at the earliest, the GO said
The Cabinet at its meeting on March 23 had decided to constitute a Sub-Committee to finalise the modalities for the proposed Rohit Vemula Act to curb caste discrimination in educational institutions.
The Congress in 2023 state Assembly elections had promised the Rohit Vemula Act.
Last year, Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, had urged the Telangana government to enact the Rohit Vemula Act.
In a letter to Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, LoP Gandhi called for putting an end to the caste discrimination through a legislation.
Rohit Vemula, a 26-year-old Dalit research scholar of the University of Hyderabad, died by suicide on January 17, 2016, alleging caste discrimination by the university authorities, who suspended his PhD degree and cancelled his stipend following an alleged dispute with ABVP members.
Rohit's death had sparked massive protests in campuses across the country over caste discrimination in educational institutions.
Rahul Gandhi, during his visit to Hyderabad University, had promised that if voted to power the Congress will bring the Rohit Vemula Act.
During a meeting with the members of the Justice for Rohit Vemula Campaign Committee from Karnataka in January, Deputy Chief Minister Vikramarka had announced that the state government would soon introduce the Rohit Vemula Act to prevent discrimination against Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in educational institutions across the state.
The committee submitted a draft of the Rohit Vemula Act, 2025, envisaged by the Karnataka government.
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