The Supreme Court has issued a notice to the Centre on 27.5 per cent reservation extended to the OBCs in central educational institutions.
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has issued a notice to the Centre on 27.5 per cent reservation extended to the OBCs in central educational institutions.
It was in 2005 that the Government amended the Constitution to make way for reservation. The enabling legislation called Central Universities Act 2007 was passed in the recent Winter Session of Parliament.
The petition, filed by Youth for Equality, seeks a stay on the Act as the entire issue of OBC reservations is pending before the Supreme Court.
The court had earlier directed the government to provide proof to substantiate its claims on the number of OBC's present before providing them with reservation. Though the government pegs the population of existing OBC's at 52 per cent, the National sample survey clearly specifies that OBC's account for only 32 per cent of the population.
Senior counsel Harish Salve, who appeared for the petitioner, told a bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat and S H Kapadia that though the bill has been passed by Parliament, the official notification was awaited and whenever the notification providing for reservation is issued, it would be challenged.
The court however, has permitted the Centre to provide the 22.5 per cent quota to scheduled castes and scheduled tribes from the all India quota in postgraduate medical courses for the academic year 2007-08.
Meanwhile, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences was also abuzz with activity on Wednesday. Some students gheraoed the office of director P Venugopal. A part of the pro-reservation group was livid when posters were put up on campus depicting one of the students belonging to their group had failed the exams. Interestingly, the results had not been declared.
The pro-reservation group went upto the Director's residence demanding to know how results were leaked out. They were annoyed that their viva had been conducted in the presence of video cameras, which they were not told about initially.
"When you put a camera on a students face, he will panic and get nervous. These are all steps by the faculty to deliberately fail students," said Dr Ramesh at AIIMS. AIIMS has been a centre of controversy ever since the government declared its intention to introduce quotas for OBCs last year, leading to a 17-day anti-quota agitation.
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