OBC quota: Insts. to get more time for infrastructure

Updated on: Sunday, August 08, 2010

The government today introduced a bill in the Rajya Sabha that provides for giving additional time of three years to central and centrally-added educational institutions to create infrastructure for accommodating OBC seat quota.

After the bill is passed by Parliament and becomes a law, these institutions will have time up to 2014 to build their physical infrastructure to accommodate additional students on account of 27 per cent reservation to the 'other backward classes'. Six years for creating additional infrastructure and seats would be counted from 2008. Earlier, it was from 2007.

The Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Amendment Bill, 2010 has been introduced as different institutions were facing difficulties to implement the 2006 law providing for reservation to OBC, in addition to SCs/STs.

The bill, introduced by HRD Minister Kapil Sibal, said the reservation to the OBCs would be 27 per cent besides 15 per cent for SCs and 7.5 per cent for STs.

After government proposed 27 per cent reservations for OBC students, protests broke out in various parts of the country. In the backdrop of these protests, the 2006 Act provided for creating additional seats so that the existing general category seats are not reduced

OBC quota: Insts. to get more time for infrastructure

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