90% SSC quota remains: State

Updated on: Thursday, June 18, 2009

Mumbai: After a week-long flip-flop and despite adverse legal opinion, school education minister Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil is all set to enforce his ambitious plan to provide for 90 per cent reservation for SSC students in junior colleges in the Mumbai metropolitan region (MMR).

A senior school education department official told TOI that even as the law and judiciary department and the advocate general have advised against going ahead with the proposal, an official order (GR or government resolution) to provide for reservation for SSC students is expected to be issued any time now. The GR provides that 90% of the seats in each junior college in the MMR region will be reserved for SSC students, while the remaining 10% will be earmarked for non-SSC students.

A month ago, Vikhe-Patil had asked the school education department to draft a resolution to provide for the 90:10 quota. The file was then submitted to the law and judiciary department, which clearly recommended that the proposal be dropped since it would not only be illegal, but also against the directives of the constitution. The proposal, along with the opinion of the law and judiciary department, was forwarded to advocate general Ravi Kadam. He too voiced a similar view.

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