INTRODUCTION Thousands of people marched in unison from Mandi House to Parliament Street on 31 st January, 2019. All these people were registering their protest against the newly opted 13 Point Roster system in the appointing process for the Teaching Staff in Central and State-funded Universities. A notification of UGC dated 5 March 2018 informed the Registrar(s) of all Central Universities, all State Universities receiving grant-in-aid, all Deemed to be Universities receiving grant-in-aid by UGC/Government and the Inter University Centres of UGC that a new system of implementing reservation in these institutions is being devised based on the Hon’ble High Court of Allahabad judgement dated 07-04-2017. (MHRD, 2018) On 07-04-2017, the Allahabad High Court gave the judgment establishing that hereafter the reservations in teaching posts in Universities are to be applied by taking subject/discipline as the unit instead of university as a whole by quashing clause No.6(c) of ...