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Shri Arjun
Singh, Union Minister for Human Resource
Development, announced on the 6th of April that
"49.5 per cent of the total seats in IITs, IIMs and
Central universities, including Delhi University,
would be reserved for OBCs, SCs and STs." He added
that "... Centre has taken a decision to implement
reservation for OBCs as per the Mandal formula in
all Central educational institutions. We are waiting
for the elections to be over." Asked if IITs and
IIMs are part of the decision, he replied, "Yes,
they are." On a question whether he anticipated
trouble like the riots during Mandal Commission,
Singh said,"We do not want social strife, we will
take adequate measures." "This was the logical
conclusion of the passing of the 104th amendment
Bill in the winter session," he added. (Source:
Financial Express - April 6 -
http://www.financialexpress
In view of
the importance of such a major policy change, we
wanted to share the news with IIT Bombay alumni, and
provide contact information for all relevant
authorities so that IITians can express their
support, comments and/or concerns directly with
them. In addition, Mumbai MidDay is reporting that
"Mumbai IITians are not taking their dissent to the
streets, but using technology to voice their
opinions" and they have set up a petition website at
http://www.petitiononline.com
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Mandal II promises not
only to polarise the student community but also
pitch the entire industry against the UPA
government. "It is not right to divide the country
on these lines", Ratan Tata, chairman, Tata Group
said. "According to me, it is tantamount to taking
the country backward," a more forthcoming Rahul
Bajaj said while talking to the media after the ISB
convocation here. Both the industry captains are
signatories to a communication to Meera Kumar, Union
Minister for social justice, venting their ire
against the move and suggesting affirmative action
making the backward communities employable. The
proposal to increase the reservation quota to 50 per
cent will hit higher education institutions like
IIT, IIMs and the central universities the hardest.
ISB dean M Rammohan Rao felt it was not a cause for
concern in the current form as policy applied only
to aided colleges. Rahul Bajaj, the Chairman
of the governing board of IIT Powai, said the
various managements will be meeting on April 21 to
discuss the matter and decide the future course of
action.
Two days into the
controversy over Union Human Resource Development
Ministry's proposal to introduce 27 per cent
reservation for Other Backward Classes in central
universities, HRD Minister Arjun Singh defended his
decision. Nearly 150 students protested outside the
IIT gate expressing their outrage over the plan to
introduce 49 per cent reservation in top
professional institutes including the IITs. But
Arjun's proposal seems to have gone down well with
students in Bihar who want the Government to provide
quotas on economic background of students. Bihar
colleges have more number of OBC students than in
any other colleges in India and they struggle for
recognition with the upper caste of the state.
The controversy
over the proposal for reservation in the Central
educational institutions further snowballed today
with the Election Commission holding that HRD
Minister Arjun Singh's announcement violated the
model code of conduct during elections and sought an
explanation from him.
Taking suo motu notice of Singh's announcement as
reported in the media, the Commission said, this
"amounts to new concessions to certain sections of
the electorate" in the five states where Assembly
elections are being held and is prima facie
violation of the model code of conduct.
In a letter to the Cabinet Secretary, the Commission
has pointed out that the model code of conduct would
be applicable to the Centre also as far as the
elections in five states were concerned. It desired
that an explanation be obtained from Singh by 5.00
pm on Monday, Commission sources said.
Human Resource
Development Minister Arjun Singh has said
the proposal of 27 percent reservation to Other
Backward Classes in the Indian Institutes of
Technology, Indian Institutes of Management and
central universities is not debatable.
Singh said the issue should not create such a stir
as Parliament had passed the Constitution Amendment
Bill envisaging such provisions, which allowed for
increasing reservations in central institutions. The
President has also given his assent to the measure.
The government will decide on the proposed
reservation for OBCs after the Assembly elections.
Pratap Bhanu Mehta,
member-convenor of National Knowledge Commission,
has termed as a "distressing development"
the move for reservation and sent an e-mail to all
commission members urging them to write to the Prime
Minister seeking his intervention in the matter.
"These is no point having the commission if we don't
take a stand on this issue," Mehta said. PV
Indiresan, a former Director of IIT-Madras, has
while delivering a keynote address at a seminar at
IIMA, said, "the proposed 49.5 percent
reservation in IITs and IIMs will be a disaster
because reservation at a late stage (in a student's
life) is ineffective and inappropriate as these
institutions cannot correct years of neglect and
irreparable damage that has been done to the
student." According to him, the government needed to
adopt the UK-model and select students from backward
classes when they are young and nurture them,
instead of initially neglecting them at a primary
stage and give them special privilege of reservation
when it is too late.
As a proposal to
introduce reservation in Central educational
institutions and IITs and IIMs has kicked up a row,
HRD Minister Arjun Singh today said it was
being whipped up. The Government is likely
to take a decision on the issue after the coming
Assembly elections. If implemented, the new policy
would take the overall reservation in the Central
government-funded higher education institutions to
49.5 per cent from the current 22.5 (for SC and ST
students). Top IIT and IIM officials said they would
debate and take decisions on the basis of the
directives of the Centre with regard to 27 per cent
reservation of seats for backward classes in the
premier institutions. Bakul Dholakia, Director of
IIM Ahmedabad, said "we had approved a broad
framework of proposals about greater autonomy and
accountability that IIM-A should particularly have.
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