SC to decide on admission norms for OBCs tomorrow
10% Relaxation On Cutoffs Or Eligibility Marks?By Dhananjay Mahapatra TNN
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will on Friday decide the criteria for admitting OBC students into central
institutions like Delhi University and Jawaharlal Nehru University under the 27% quota provision. A vacation bench of Justices P Sathasivam and A K Patnaik will address the ambiguity — should the cutoff for OBCs be 10% less than the cutoff marks for general category or should it be 10% less than the eligibility marks for general students?
While cutoffs for general students are high in most institutes, the eligibility criteria for general candidates is just 50% marks.
OBC candidates who score more than 40% are considered for admission under the Central Educational Institutes (Reservation in Admission) Act, 2006.
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New Delhi: The apex court will on Friday decide the criteria for admitting OBC students in central institutions.
Citing a constitution bench judgment, senior advocate Indu Malhotra on Wednesday argued that the criteria was to be 10% less than the last cutoff mark for general category candidates. She said JNU was flouting this norm by admitting students who had scored 10% less than the eligibility criteria for general category.
Senior advocate A Mariarputham and counsel Sanjay Parikh argued that if the cutoff criteria is followed, no OBC candidate would get admission and the seats would have to be offered to general students category – defeating the purpose of the reservations. Under the 2006 Act, the central educational institutes were asked to increase their seats to accommodate OBC candidates without reducing the intake of general category candidates.
In the 2008 judgment in Ashoka Thakur case, the apex court had upheld the constitutional validity of 27% quota for OBC candidates but had warned against dilution of merit. Two judges – Justices Arijit Pasayat and C K Thakker – had recommended lowering the eligibility criteria for OBC candidates by 5% marks, while Justice Dalveer Bhandari was in favour of reducing it by 10% from the cutoff prescribed for general category.
A constitution bench in 2009 attempted to clarify the air, saying it should be fixed at 10% less than the cutoff prescribed for general candidates. But it appears the confusion between the cutoff and eligibility criteria continues to persist.
The argument of OBC candidates is that the central educational institution cannot shut the doors of admission to OBCs by resorting to the last cutoff of admitted general category candidates, which would make most backward class students ineligible for higher studies.
institutions like Delhi University and Jawaharlal Nehru University under the 27% quota provision. A vacation bench of Justices P Sathasivam and A K Patnaik will address the ambiguity — should the cutoff for OBCs be 10% less than the cutoff marks for general category or should it be 10% less than the eligibility marks for general students?
While cutoffs for general students are high in most institutes, the eligibility criteria for general candidates is just 50% marks.
OBC candidates who score more than 40% are considered for admission under the Central Educational Institutes (Reservation in Admission) Act, 2006.
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Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students admitted to IIT-Delhi will undergo a “self-enrichment programme” to pick up etiquette and tech-savviness to adapt to campus life – a move parents and experts say will lead to segregation even before they enter the classroom. P 15 Debate on relief for OBCs in cutoff or eligibility criteria
New Delhi: The apex court will on Friday decide the criteria for admitting OBC students in central institutions.
Citing a constitution bench judgment, senior advocate Indu Malhotra on Wednesday argued that the criteria was to be 10% less than the last cutoff mark for general category candidates. She said JNU was flouting this norm by admitting students who had scored 10% less than the eligibility criteria for general category.
Senior advocate A Mariarputham and counsel Sanjay Parikh argued that if the cutoff criteria is followed, no OBC candidate would get admission and the seats would have to be offered to general students category – defeating the purpose of the reservations. Under the 2006 Act, the central educational institutes were asked to increase their seats to accommodate OBC candidates without reducing the intake of general category candidates.
In the 2008 judgment in Ashoka Thakur case, the apex court had upheld the constitutional validity of 27% quota for OBC candidates but had warned against dilution of merit. Two judges – Justices Arijit Pasayat and C K Thakker – had recommended lowering the eligibility criteria for OBC candidates by 5% marks, while Justice Dalveer Bhandari was in favour of reducing it by 10% from the cutoff prescribed for general category.
A constitution bench in 2009 attempted to clarify the air, saying it should be fixed at 10% less than the cutoff prescribed for general candidates. But it appears the confusion between the cutoff and eligibility criteria continues to persist.
The argument of OBC candidates is that the central educational institution cannot shut the doors of admission to OBCs by resorting to the last cutoff of admitted general category candidates, which would make most backward class students ineligible for higher studies.
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