Moily to head panel on quotas

NEW DELHI: Veerappa Moily, chairman of the Administrative Reforms Commission, will head the Oversight Committee that will prepare the roadmap to address the issue of reservation in central educational institutes, it was announced here on Sunday.

 

The decision to set up the Oversight Committee was taken at the meeting of the UPA coordination committee on May 23.

 

It was mandated to draw up a time-bound roadmap for implementing the decisions of the Coordination Committee. It was also decided that smaller groups consisting of deans, directors and vice chancellors of the institutions concerned will be set up to work out details for each class of institutions.

 

The Oversight Committee will put together the recommendations of these groups and submit a comprehensive report by August 31.
      
Emerging from a 90-minute meeting presided over by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at his official Race Course Road residence, Union Minister Oscar Fernandes told reporters that the agitating medicos had sought certain clarifications on the statement issued by the PMO after their meeting with Singh last week.