SC stay not to disturb admission process: Moily

Mangalore, Apr 2 (UNI) Administrative Reforms Commission Chairman and former Karnataka Chief Minister M Veerappa Moily today asserted that the stay by the Supreme Court on 27 per cent reservation to other backward classes (OBC) in higher educational institutions would not hamper the admission process for the current year.

Addressing a press conference here, he said the admission process in higher educational institutes such as IIMs and IITs for the current year would not be hampered by the apex court stay.

Mr Moily, who headed the Oversight Committee which recommended the 27 per cent reservation, felt that the 1991 census was not based on a scientific method and said he had mentioned the matter in his report to the Government.

To a query, he said the Mangalore-Hassan track was expected to be ready by the first week of next month for running passenger train.

He had also taken up completing the work at the earliest with Railway Minister Lalu Prasad.

Later, inaugurating Tale Hore Karmikara Sangha and Mahila Karmikara Sangha here, he cautioned that the society would be divided if there was no social justice. Development and social justice should go hand in hand, he said.

Mr Moily warned that if any community was denied social, economical and religious opportunities, it would lead to social conflicts, posing a grave threat to the national integrity. These social conflicts out of suppression and deprivation would split the society. Democracy would have no meaning if there was no social justice.

He said the denial of social justice could be presumed as one of the reasons for growing naxalism in the country. The menace, restricted to a few districts earlier, had now spread to 200 districts across the country.

Referring to the river water disputes in the country, he said river water distribution by coordination committees of the respective States was being successfully practised in South Africa.

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