Parliamentary panel says economically backward classes should get first preference. OBC creamy layer can benefit if seats remain.
Parliamentary panel says economically backward classes should get first preference
NEW DELHI: While the Government is still silent over the issue of creamy layer among OBCs as it gears up to provide them 27 per cent reservation in the government-aided institutes of higher learning, a Parliamentary Standing Committee has made it clear that the quotas should be first given to the non-creamy layer. The OBC creamy layer can benefit only if seats remain unfilled.
In its report, the Committee on Human Resource Development, which was examining the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Bill, 2006, has said: “The Committee arrived at the conclusion that reservations should be extended to the non-creamy layer of OBC candidates, at the first instance. After admitting such non-creamy layer candidates, if OBC vacancies remain unfilled, these may be filled up from the creamy layer in order of merit.”
The report, presented by Committee’s chairman Janardan Dwivedi in the Rajya Sabha on Friday, also recommended for having ‘suitable mechanism’ to take care of socially and educationally backward among the minorities. The Committee has asked HRD ministry to ensure that the candidates belonging to backward classes, who get admission on the basis of merit, should not be adjusted against the reserved quota of 27 per cent and efforts should be made to see that functional autonomy of the institutions of higher learning was not impaired while providing quotas.
While various new groups have been regularly added to the list of OBCs, making it swell to 2303 caste/communities, there have been hardly any exclusions from the list. Hence, it was emphasised during the discussions of the Standing Committee that the process of inclusion could not be continued indefinitely and there was need to put a cap on further additions.
Observing that there were no accepted mechanism or criteria to group the people into different categories, the Committee emphasised on urgently having in place scientific and objective mechanism/ benchmarks for identifying and removing all such lacunae and problems. It also recommended for a comprehensive survey of total population bringing out social, educational and economic profile of each caste/community/section of society, followed by periodic reviews.
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