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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | SC upholds Delhi HC verdict on OBC admissions criteria by Nikhil M Ghanekar

SC upholds Delhi HC verdict on OBC admissions criteria by Nikhil M Ghanekar

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published Published on Aug 19, 2011   modified Modified on Aug 19, 2011

Criteria for OBCs to be 10% less than general category's minimum eligibility criteria

The Supreme Court on Thursday gave its final verdict in the case relating to the 27% reservation for OBCs in central universities allowing 10% relaxation for OBC students below the minimum eligibility criteria of the general category. This means that the cut-off for OBC candidates is to be calculated from the minimum eligibility mark, and not from the marks obtained by the last general category candidate to secure admission. The SC has set August 31 as the last date for all Central Universities to fill the vacant OBC reserved seats. This verdict will have far-reaching implications as it ends the debate once and for all as to what should be the exact criterion to admit OBC students.

The Delhi High Court in September last year had given a ruling favourable for the same, but it was appealed against by PV Indiresan, Director, IIT Madras and Youth for Equality, the forum against reservations.

This verdict once and for all ends the debate on the controversial topic of OBC cut-offs. The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and the Delhi University (DU), two top universities in the country were converting seats reserved for OBCs into general category seats on account of the seats being vacant. The Union Human Resources Development Ministry too supported JNU’s methodology.

But the All India Students’ Association (AISA) kept the pressure on these two central universities through their petition in the Delhi High Court. Tapas Saha, a member of AISA’s Advisory Council and a Professor at Delhi University’s Sri Aurobindo College says, “It was JNU which first started to use the methodology of fixing the cut-off for OBCs on the basis of the marks obtained by the last general category candidate, and then, DU too started using the same. This methodology meant that OBC seats were stolen.”

Saha cites the Delhi High Court’s September 2010 verdict to drive his point home. The verdict clearly says: “The expression ‘cut-off marks’ has been used interchangeably with the expression ‘eligibility condition’.” This meant that JNU and DU could claim that seats were not being filled by OBC students and thus it was justified to allow general category students to fill it.

In addition to this, an RTI filed by AISA revealed the number of seats reserved for the OBC category which were wasted. In the year 2009-10 there was a deficit of around 90 seats in OBC reservation in all courses. In some streams, the minimum eligibility was kept at as high as 80.

Nikhil Ghanekar is a Correspondent with Tehelka.com
nikhil@tehelka.com


Tehelka, 18 August, 2011, http://www.tehelka.com/story_main50.asp?filename=Ws180811EDUCATION.asp


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