Quota Bill gets Cabinet green signal

The Union Cabinet on Monday night cleared a Bill providing 27 percent reservation for other backward classes (OBCs) in government-aided institutes of higher education.:Cry:


Information and Broadcasting Minsiter P R Dasmunsi refused to give details, but said the Bill will be tabled before Parliament by August 25, the last day of the monsoon session.


Quota implementation would start from 2007:nono: . The decision, taken at a two-hour special meeting of the Cabinet, rejected the demand of DMK and PMK that the reservation be conducted in one go.


The quantum of reservation was not revealed, but it is believed to be up to 27 per cent for OBCs and combined with the quota for SC and ST.


The Bill, which doesn’t mention the creamy layer concept, will not apply to institutions where there aren't enough teachers or seats.


The draft Bill has been prepared on the basis of the recommendations of an Oversight Committee headed by former Karnataka Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Veerappa Moily.


Though there have been protests against the quota, most political parties are expected to support the bill in Parliament, government sources said.


A separate draft Bill introducing 27 percent quota for OBCs in the unaided institution is likely to be introduced at a later stage. The draft of this second piece of legislation is being finalised by the HRD ministry, a ministry official said.


The second draft Bill would be taken up once the Moily committee comes out with a roadmap for implementing OBC quota system in unaided institutions, the official informed.


Six months ago, HRD Minister Arjun Singh announced that his ministry plans to bring in reservation for OBCs. This sparked off a nationwide agitation against and for the proposal.


The proposal could not be implemented then because of the impending assembly elections and the agitation. The government set up an Oversight Committee to prepare the roadmap for implementation of the reservation proposal.


The draft Bill proposes to reserve seats in top institutions like Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Management.

THIS IA A SAD NEWS 4 OL THOSE WHO PROTESTED AGAINST RESERVATIONS AND 4 THOSE WHO SUPPORTED IT..........................GOVERNMENT SEEMS 2 HAV TURNED DEAF EARS AGAINST ALL THE PETITIONS & AGITATIONS.:frusty:

WELL...............FACT IS THAT QUOTA IS GOIN 2 B IMPLEMENTED.........


REGARDS.....

PALLAVI

 

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WELL...............completely agreee what was the use of all that bunking,protesting,getting laticharged..........went futile.............as far as this big bad game of politics is going to exist...........nothing is ever going to change......and........let us all get realistic & practical........as RANG DE BASANTI looks good on screen itself.

 

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After 3 months, students back on the streets

Scores of anti-quota medicos and students on Tuesday hit the streets after a gap of almost three months, resuming their agitation a day after the Cabinet decided to introduce a Bill in Parliament, proposing reservations in government-aided elite educational institutions.

Students from Indraprastha University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, IIT-Delhi and medical colleges converged at Jantar Mantar, demanding immediate reversal of the Cabinet decision taken late Monday night.

Chanting anti-government slogans and holding the tri-colour, the agitating students said they would go to any extreme to force the government to reconsider their decision.

"Earlier, we had called off our agitation following the Supreme Court directive. The apex Court should tell the government as well to reconsider the Cabinet decision as the matter is sub-judice," Anil Sharma, spokesperson of the AIIMS Resident Doctors' Association, said.

He said the medicos were considering legal experts and would move the Supreme Court against the government decision on Wednesday.

Attacking the government, Sharma said the medicos' agitation will continue with the same intensity as the May anti-quota protests.

"Though we have not decided to go on a strike we are keeping our options open and it would be the last resort," he said adding that students were being mobilised across the country and a national agitation could be launched soon.

Sharma said the government had taken the decision to introduce reservations under pressure from PMK, DMK and Left.