PanIIT Alumni Organisations oppose OBC quota

New Delhi, June 16 (UNI) Opposing quotas for OBC, the PanIIT Alumni organisations today said the reservation is not the correct approach to creating equal opportunities for all sections of society.

In a letter to President A P J Abdul Kalam and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, it urged the government to include its members as representatives on the advisory panel to help implement affirmative action.

''We support affirmative action... but we do not believe that the system of reservation is the correct approach. We oppose the creation of reservation quotas for OBC,'' PanIIT Alumni Organisation's, which represents about 1,50,000 alumni of seven IITs, said in the letter.

IIT alumni have held considerable deliberations on the reservation issue and ''we believe that quotas are not the viable alternatives'', they said.

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