Rutgers balks at creating separate prohibition against caste-based discrimination

The university said current policies barring religious discrimination were sufficient to also address caste bias.

Rutgers University, after a more than yearlong review, has declined to create a separate prohibition against caste-based discrimination, bucking a nationwide trend among colleges and universities.on Monday, arguing that current policies barring discrimination based on religion, ancestry, national origin and race were sufficient to also prohibit caste discrimination.

“Rutgers stands firmly against harassment and discrimination in all their forms,” said Dory Devlin, a Rutgers University spokesperson, who noted that questions related to caste discrimination would be added to the next campus climate survey. “We’re disappointed in the administration’s failure to adopt this much-needed civil rights policy,” said Pranay Somayajula, the director of organizing and advocacy at Hindus for Human Rights, a progressive group.

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