New Delhi, April 20 -- Jawaharlal Nehru University has approved a five per cent supernumerary quota for wards of teaching and non-teaching staff across all undergraduate and postgraduate courses from the upcoming academic session.

The proposal was approved during a meeting of the Executive Council on April 15.

JNU had an existing supernumerary quota of less than 1 per cent for the wards of regular JNU employees (Groups B, C & D). This move will increase the quota to 5 per cent and extend it to teaching staff as well.

There was a long-standing demand from the Non-Teaching and the Teaching regular employees of JNU to increase the supernumerary quota for their wards, given that other Central Universities already have provisions to provide...