No stay on sub-quota quashing to hit 325 IIT aspirants
Wednesday June 13, 2012 09:55:42 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: A total of
325 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) aspirants are likely to
be affected if the quashing of 4.5 percent sub-quota for
minorities in central institutions was not stayed, the government
told the Supreme Court Wednesday.
Additional Solicitor General Gourab Banerji told this to the apex
court bench of Justice K. Radhakrishnan and Justice J.S. Khehar.
The court issued notice on the government's plea and declined an
interim stay, for now, on the Andhra Pradesh High Court's verdict
quashing the 4.5 percent sub-quota for minorities within 27
percent reservation for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs).
The notice was issued to R. Krishnaiah on whose petition the high
court quashed the sub-quota.
Banerji told the court that there were 4,861 IIT seats under the
general category and 2,169 for the OBCs under the 27 percent
reservation and 443 under the 4.5 percent sub-quota.
The ASG told the court that against the 443 available seats under
the sub-quota only 325 students succeeded in qualifying for
admission to IITs.
As Banerji reeled out figures, Justice Khehar asked him how 443
measured to 4.5 percent sub-quota within the OBCs' reservation.
Justice Khehar said that it was much more and was about 20 percent
of the total OBC seats. "It is not marginal but 20 percent," the
court said.
Earlier in response to a query by the court, Banerji told the
court that 4.5 percent sub-quota would have a marginal affect on
the OBC candidates under the overall 27 percent reservation.
The court also inquired from Banerji about the number of students
belonging to religious minorities that had succeeded in the
general category, OBC category and under the 4.5 sub-quota.
"How many religious minority students in general category, OBCs
reservation and sub-quota", the court asked.
The court said this in the course of the hearing of a petition by
the government challenging the May 28 order of the high court by
which it quashed the carving out 4.5 percent sub-quota for
minorities within the 27 percent OBC reservation.
The Dec 22, 2011 office memorandum for the sub-quota for socially
and educationally backward classes of citizens belonging to
minority communities in central educational institutions and jobs
was announced by the central government ahead of the assembly
elections in five states earlier this year.
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