Hyderabad: The Telangana government on Friday, April 17, constituted a Cabinet Sub-Committee to draft recommendations for the proposed Rohit Vemula legislation aimed at preventing identity-based discrimination in higher educational institutions.
The panel to be headed by Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, includes ministers D Sridhar Babu, N Uttam Kumar Reddy, Ponnam Prabhakar and C Damodar Rajanarasimha.
“Government hereby constitute a Cabinet Sub-Committee to study and make recommendations/suggestions for making suitable legislation on the Rohit Vemula Telangana (Prevention of Identity Based Discrimination in Higher Education) Bill, 2026,” a Government Order (GO) said.
The Special Chief Secretary to Government (Scheduled Caste Development Department) will be the Convenor of the Sub- Committee, it said.
The Sub-Committee should submit its recommendations at the earliest, the order said.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had written to CM A Revanth Reddy last year to enact the ‘Rohit Vemula Act’ to end discrimination in educational institutions.
Rohit Vemula, a Dalit student, allegedly died by suicide at the University of Hyderabad due to caste-based discrimination in 2016.
Vemula’s death had snowballed into a political controversy with Rahul Gandhi taking on the central government in Parliament and the then Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani slamming alleged attempts to project it as a caste battle.
The Karnataka Cabinet on April 16 approved the Karnataka Rohith Vemula (Prevention of Exclusion or Injustice) (Right to Education and Dignity) Bill.
