[Reader-list] Vacant OBC seats to go to General Category: SC

[Partha Dasgupta]

Hi,
As per the papers (and am clarifying that as the information I have is
gleaned off the dailies) what the precis is that once the SC/ST and OBC
percentage is decided, they will not drop the percentage any lower - and
that any balance seats will be moved to the General Quota so that any
applicants who fulfill the criteria will be admitted.

However, as we all know, there is 'many a slip between the cup and the lip'
as far as the government is concerned, so we'll just have to wait for
implementation to see how this ruling is translated.

Rgds, Partha
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On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Rohit Shetti <rohitism at gmail.com> wrote:

> The last line is intriguing. "It will go back to general category". What
> does 'back' imply? Or am I reading too much.
>
> Rohit
>
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Aditya Raj Kaul
> <kauladityaraj at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> >  Vacant OBC seats to go to General Category: SC
> >    New Delhi, Sep 15 (PTI) The Supreme Court today said that seats
> > remaining vacant after the implementation of 27 per cent OBC quota in
> > central educational institutions like IITs and IIMs will go to general
> > category candidates and it would be "desirable" not to have huge
> difference
> > in cut-off marks.
> >
> > A five-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan,
> > which on April 10 had upheld the validity of the controversial law
> > providing
> > quota, was unanimous that there was no confusion on the issue as the
> three
> > judges had clearly stated that no seats would go vacant.
> >
> > The anti-quota petitioners drew the attention of the bench that even
> after
> > the implementation of the law -- the Central Educational Institution
> > (Reservation in admission) -- seats have remained vacant and there was a
> > confusion over it.
> >
> > Senior advocate K K Venugopal referred to the two judgements, one written
> > by
> > Justices Arijit Pasayat and C K Thakker and another by Justice Dalveer
> > Bhandari, to buttress the stand that the seats added in the 27 per cent
> OBC
> > quota which remained vacant after implementation of the Act cannot go
> > waste.
> >
> > "What is the confusion. It was clarified in the judgement itself that the
> > seats remaining vacant will go to the General Category," Justice Pasayat
> > said.
> >
> > "Both the judgements clearly said that such vacant seats will go to the
> > general category," added Justice Bhandari.
> >
> > At the outset when Venugopal said there was a need for clarification on
> the
> > aspect of vacant seats, Justice Pasayat said, "This (wasting of seats)
> > cannot be allowed. It will go back to the general category". PTI
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