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SC notice to TN seeking exclusion of creamy layer from quota


NEW DELHI, SEP 11 (PTI)
The Supreme Court today sought a response from the Tamil Nadu Government on a petition seeking to exclude the creamy layer among Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes from taking benefit of reservation for admissions to educational institutions and employment opportunities.

A Bench comprising Justice A K Mathur and Justice Altamas Kabir issued notice to the state Government on a PIL filed by an NGO, VOICE (Consumer Care Council) seeking to forbid it from applying the existing reservation policy without excluding the creamy layer from among the backward classes.

The NGO submitted that the Tamil Nadu Government was not following the apex court directives as delivered in the Mandal case by which government had to apply the relevant and requisite socio-economic criteria to exclude socially advanced sections, ie "creamy layer" from OBCs.

"It is necessary to state that Tamil Nadu by not identifying the creamy layer for more than one decade literally affected the reservation of the needy lower strata of the society," the PIL said.

The NGO in its PIL referred to a petition in which the state government's legislation providing 69 per cent reservation has been challenged and is pending before a Constitution Bench.

The Tamil Nadu Backward Classes, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Reservation of seats in Educational institutions and of appointment or posts in the services under the state Act, 1993 provides 69 per cent reservation.

The PIL said it was contrary to the apex court directives in the Mandal case which said reservation should not exceed 50 per cent.

Moily committee to finalise report on Sep 27


NEW DELHI, SEP 12 (PTI)
The Oversight Committee, tasked to prepare a roadmap for implementing the quota for OBCsin elite Central educational institutions, will meet on September 27 to finalise its report that will be submitted to the government by the month end.

The Committee, headed by former Karnataka chief minister Veerappa Moily, was earlier scheduled to meet on September 15 to finalise its report.

"This is a sensitive and significant issue. It is of national importance. The Committee wants to have a cautious approach," Moily said, adding the meeting would be held on September 27.

The panel would like to submit its final report by the month end, said Moily, who is also chairman of the Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC).

Moily, who held a series of consultations last month with academicians in preparation for finalising the report, had earlier indicated that the implementation of the 27 per cent quota was possible only in a staggered manner.

The committee is also expected to give its "considered view" on the "creamy layer" issue in its final report.

Moily sets 3-year deadline for IITs, IIMs
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NEW DELHI: The Veerappa Moily panel has recommended a review of all reservation schemes in educational institutions every five years. It has, however, steered clear of the politically volatile issue of excluding the 'creamy layer' among OBCs from the ambit of job quota because of a serious in-house split.

The panel, which was set up to chart out the roadmap for implementation of the newly introduced OBC quota in Central educational institutions, has in its final report released on Wednesday, recommended the setting up of three more IIMs along with more IIT-type institutions.

Called Oversight Committee, the panel has, just like the Bill on reservations in aided institutions, recommended a three-year timeframe for rolling out the OBC quota in Central institutions, overruling IIM-Ahmedabad and IIM-Indore, which had asked for four years to implement the reservation scheme.

It has called for a Rs 17,200-crore package to fund the infrastructure upgrade so that there is no decline in general-category seats.

"In order to retain the general seats intact after giving 27% reservation to OBCs, 54% seat expansion would be needed which can be done at the rate of 18% every year for three years," Moily told reporters.

The panel has also recommended a hike in scholarships for students.

The proposal to set up three new IIMs should come as a relief to the droves eager to have seats in the business schools bearing the prestigious tag. As for IIT-type institutions, HRD ministry has already decided to give this status to nearly 10 National Institutes of Technology.

Explaining the roadmap, Moily said: "Implementation will begin in 2007-08 and no institution will slip out over and above three years. During our consultations with heads of various institutions, we found that staggered implementation is the best way.

Quota shock: Fee hike in IIMs, IITs
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BANGALORE: The Centre's caste-based reservation will bring with it fee hike for thousands of IIT and IIM students.

M Veerappa Moily-headed Oversight Committee in its final report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh while advocating financial autonomy to these institutes has recommended that IIT and IIM students be charged fee commensurate with the per student cost per year.

"It is felt that IIT and IIM graduates enjoy a 100% job assurance and will be able to obtain bank finance to meet their fee and other expenses. The access to bank finance should be assured to all students and thereafter IIT/IIM students should be charged fee commensurate with the per student cost per year. In case of IITs, the present system of a subsidised fee structure may, however, have to continue in some measure for post-graduate and researchstream students, till all of them become hotshots in the employment market," the report states.

This means, if an IIM is spending Rs 3 lakh on a student per year, but is charging only Rs 1.5 lakh, they will have to recover the entire cost from the student. While assessing the expenditure that would be required to implement 54% expansion, the committee has worked out a recurring expenditure of Rs 1.5 lakh per student per year in respect of IIMs and Rs 1.7 lakh in IITs. The non-recurring expenditure per student would be Rs 8 lakh and Rs 10 lakh respectively.

Another significant recommendation is that the budgetary support for recurring expenditure for these institutes should be discontinued after the 11th five-year plan. "Some of the institutions like the IITs and IIMs will be able to raise resources from their management/executive development programmes, consultancies, research and customised courses. It is expected that the three older IIMs (Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Calcutta) will be in a position to meet their own recurring cost and the newer IIMs at Indore, Kozhikode and Lucknow should also be in a position to stand on their own feet probably by the 11th five-year plan," the report adds.

The committee has told the Centre that the same principle should be applied to all National Institutes of Technology but the question of continuing support should be reviewed at the end of the 11th plan in 2011.

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AIIMS: DIRECTOR DR VENUGOPAL ACCOMPANIES HEALTH MINISTER DURING TOUR OF DENGUE WARD

Ramadoss runs into flower protest

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New Delhi, October 11: FLOWERS and placards were the order of the day when Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss visited AIIMS today to meet dengue patients. In a protest inspired by the film Lage Raho Munnabhai and its exposition of "Gandhigiri", some students and resident doctors representing the Youth for Equality displayed placards that read "Get well soon Ramadoss" and "Get well soon Ramu"😆 along with bouquets of red roses at the hospital entrance.

The students claim they had also placed a similar placard and a rose next to the beds in the dengue ward which Ramadoss was to visit. but AIIMS spokesperson Dr Shakti Gupta denied this. Asked how the minister had reacted on seeing the placards and flowers, Gupta said: "There is no question of reacting to it as he did not see them. The flowers might have been displayed in the hostels, but we are unaware of it." Ramadoss was recently involved in a showdown with AIIMS Director P Venugopal but was today accompanied by him as he reviewed medical facilities at the hospital. He also made a round of the new private ward on the third floor which has been converted into an emergency wing to treat dengue cases. Explaining the rationale behind today's protest senior AIIMS resident doctor Kaushal Kant Mishra said: "The Health Minister has been behaving strangely and we want him to get well soon... and get his priorities right. We are protesting against the minister's actions with regard to AIIMS. Our protest is based on the principles of Gandhiji and inspired by the movie Lage Raho Munnabhai."

Another resident doctor added: "Even PM Manmohan Singh visited the patients in the hospital before him. Ramadoss has found time only now."

SC seeks House report on quotas in IIMs/IITs


October 16, 2006 12:54 IST
The Supreme Court on Monday directed the government to place before it the report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee examining the bill seeking to provide reservation to OBCs in higher educational institutions.

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SC objects to OBC quota report



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Monday October 16, 12:36 PM
New Delhi: In a significant development, the Government on Monday informed the Supreme Court that the 27 percent quota for other backward classes (OBCs) in higher educational institutions will not be implemented till a proper law is enacted by parliament.

Additional Solicitor General Gopal Subramaniam gave this assurance when a bench consisting of Justice Arijit Pasayat and Justice L S Panta indicated that the apex court would not allow implementation of the quota without the matter being examined by it.

Subramaniam requested the court not to give any such interim direction as the quota bill had already been introduced in parliament in August and referred to a standing committee of parliament.

The bench, which was hearing a petition by C K Thakur challenging the government's decision to implement the 27 per cent quota for OBCs, initially passed an order, "We request parliament not to take any action on the bill till we examine the matter".

Subramaniam, however, said no such order should be passed as the government would not take any action on the implementation of the quota unless a proper law is put in place.

The bench asked Subramaniam, "You (the Veerappa Moily Committee) go on saying that you will implement the quota. On what basis do you say so in the absence of any data?"

Subramaniam said the process of collecting data was taking place and the bill was pending consideration before parliament.

The court then asked Subramaniam to submit in a sealed cover the report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee to be submitted to parliament in the winter session commencing on Nov 27. The bench directed listing of the matter for further hearing on Dec 4.

The Veerappa Moily oversight committee was set up by the central government to implement the additional caste-based quota in central educational institutes.

PM forms committee to look into SC, ST quota in private sector

By ANI
Monday October 16, 08:33 PM
New Delhi, Oct 16 (ANI): With demands for reservation of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes people in the private sector gaining strength, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh constituted a five-member coordination committee on Monday to suggest mechanisms for the affirmative actions required to be implemented by the private companies.

The coordination committee under the chairmanship of Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister would "explore the best way to see that the private sector fulfils the aspirations of the SC and ST youth". he committee which will ensure time bound examination of suggestions and action points from various stakeholders will also identify the necessary steps required for the affirmative actions and their implementation.

The committee has been asked to submit an interim report within six months followed by a final report within one year.

The other members of the committee are the secretaries of Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Department of Personnel and Training, Ministry of Tribal Affairs and Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion.

This comes after Manmohan Singh's own ministers started raising the demand for SC, ST quota in the private industry.

Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment Meera Kumar and Union Fertiliser Minister Ram Vilas Paswan had publicly called for the quota in the private sector, citing the declining number of government jobs in the country.

ut the Indian industry has always desisted from any quota and has assured of taking the other mechanisms of the affirmative actions. (ANI)

SC okays promotion quota for SC/STs in govt jobs


October 19, 2006 11:34 IST
Last Updated: October 19, 2006 11:37 IST

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the constitutional validity of the 77th Amendment to the Constitution providing reservations for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes for promotion in government jobs, but said that the creamy layer has to be excluded from its benefits.

A five-judge constitution bench, headed by Chief Justice Y K Sabharwal, said the overall limit of 50 per cent reservation cannot be exceeded under any circumstances.

The court said that while providing reservation for promotion in government jobs, the state has to justify that the SC/STs are not adequately represented and that the administrative efficiencies are not impelled.

The 77th amendment was brought to do away with the Supreme Court ruling in the Mandal Commission case restricting quotas to appointments as opposed to promotions. Article 16 (4A) was inserted to provide for reservation in promotion for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.