The draft bill currently being prepared by the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry is unlikely to address issues surrounding the creamy layer or staggered quotas.
NEW DELHI: The draft bill currently being prepared by the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry is unlikely to address issues surrounding the creamy layer or staggered quotas. The issues will have to be thrashed out by Parliament.
Since the UPA Coordination Committee and the Left parties have made no mention of this in their formulation, the draft will not make any reference to either of the issues.
The statement released by the UPA Coordination Committee and the Left parties had fixed the percentage of reservation for OBCs in educational institutes under Centre’s purview at 27 per cent. The quota will be implemented in the academic session commencing June 2007. HRD Ministry sources said that the ministry will strictly go by what has been conveyed to them by the Cabinet Secretariat in this regard. Since there is no mention about the creamy layer in the UPA - Left parties formulation, the draft bill will also not discuss the issue.
The draft will be presented to the Cabinet. After it is approved, the Government will introduce legislation in the Monsoon Session of Parliament. Sources said that while implementing the 27 per cent decision, the government will ensure that the seats available in the general category are not reduced.
However, if suitable candidates in the reserved category are not found, then the reserved seats will not be made available to candidates in the general category. All central universities and educational institutions already follow this pattern in SC/ST reservation. “If suitable candidates are not found in the first list, then the central committee for SC/ST sends a second list. If a suitable candidate is still not found, then the seat remains vacant,” said a senior lecturer in Delhi University.
If the bill gets Parliament’s nod, then even private universities registered with the Central government will have to adhere to quota regulations. Private technical institutions like BITS, Pilani, and Manipal University will now have to part with seats for the backward. However, for private colleges and institutes under state governments, their respective states will take a call.
Institutes like ISB are out of it
Chitti Pantulu
HYDERABAD: The Indian School of Business (ISB) will perhaps be one of the rare higher education institutions in the country that may be spared from implementing the 27 per cent reservation rule for OBC students as and when it is promulgated. As K Lakshminarayana, Commissioner of Collegiate Education, Andhra Pradesh points out, the ISB is not a deemed university and does not hand out degrees in the conventional sense.
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