University to Determine Inclusion of Sports in Admission Quota

The Hon’ble Delhi High Court has, in Vidushi Kasniya v. University of Delhi, pointed out that a university has the discretion to decide whether a particular sport, such as Karate, is to be included in the sports quota for admission into the university or not. A candidate cannot claim it as a matter of right since all sports are not at par and do not enjoy the same amount of popularity.

The Appellant had applied for admission to M.A. Psychology, for which she has sought benefits under the Sports quota. However, her sport of choice, karate, was not included in the list of ‘Sports Supernumerary Quota’ in the PG courses. With this, the court followed the well-settled rule to be extremely slow in interfering with policy decisions unless they were completely arbitrary.