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Anti-Reservationists Spark Fresh Row, PG institutes `can't implement quota'
By sachiv, Section News
The OBC quota debate refuses to die. A day after the Supreme Court said that 27 per cent seats would be reserved for OBCs in all centrally-aided educational institutions, anti-reservationists today sparked a fresh row, saying that post-graduate institutes like IIMs, AIIMS and PGIs were out of the quota ambit.
The government, on its part, clarified that there was no confusion on this matter and that all centrally-aided institutes, including post-graduate institutes like AIIMS, would go ahead and implement the 27 per cent OBC quota. The government is, however, still grappling with the issue of exclusion of the creamy layer. Anti-reservationists meanwhile seemed sure of their interpretation of the Supreme Court judgement. M.L. Lahoti, who represented the anti-quota activists in the Supreme Court on this issue, today told The Tribune that "the Apex Court judgement, if read properly, concluded that post-graduate institutes cannot implement OBC quota. Two of the five judges in the Constitutional Bench have said that anyone who can reach higher secondary level can compete with anyone. The other three judges favoured the benchmark of graduation when determining the educational backwardness of beneficiaries. We are sure of the facts that like private educational institutes, PG institutes cannot offer OBC quota." Click on "Full Story" for more...
The anti-reservation lobby said it would watch how the government handled this issue. They also said that they would not be surprised if the government sought a clarification on this matter from the Supreme Court.
Sources in the HRD Ministry, however, said that 27 per cent OBC quota would be implemented by all educational institutes, PG included. Efforts were on to see how the implementation could be worked out from this very session, as stated by Union HRD Minister Arjun Singh yesterday. The government is now in the process of listing out the beneficiaries of 27 per cent OBC quota in collaboration with the Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. Sources in the Union Ministry of Social Justice today said the issue of creamy layer would be sorted out keeping in consideration the definition of creamy layer, as mentioned in a 2004 Circular of the Department of Personnel and Training. "The definition of creamy layer first given in 1993 was later revised in 2004. It mentions six criteria, including economic criteria of Rs 2.5 lakh annual family income, to determine who falls in the creamy layer. All the OBCs notified in the Central list will be the beneficiaries of 27 per cent OBC quota, after they have stood the test of creamy layer. The issue will also go to the Cabinet", said sources. Source: Tribune News Service, 12/04/2008
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