IIM Dir to meet on Apr 20 to decide on OBC quota

New Delhi, Apr 18: The directors of all the IIMs are converging here on April 20 to discuss the situation arising out of the Supreme Court deciding to hear on April 23 the Centre's application seeking vacation of its stay on implementation of 27 per cent reservation for the OBCs in central educational institutions.

The court's stay order, delivered on March 29, had come when the admission process in the IIMs for the coming academic session was almost complete. However, their directors last week decided to go ahead with the admission of general category candidates and publish the final list on April 21 if they did not hear anything from the government by that date.

It was in this context that the court decision to hear the application on April 23 assumed significance.

Director of Bangalore IIM Dr Prakash Apte told UNI over phone that they would decided the further course of action only after the April 20 meeting.

The apex court in today's order made it clear that the government had to satisfy that it was not seeking a review of the March 29 stay order.

It had come as a setback to the government. The court said it was a prima facie review petition and the court would hear the arguments whether the application for clarification was in substance a review petition.

The apex court had stayed the operation of the notification for introducing the OBC reservation on the grounds that no authentic data regarding the percentage of OBCs in the country had been placed by the government before the court and the 1931 census which was the basis of the Mandal Commission report could not be considered authentic.

The court had also expressed its reservation against inclusion of the creamy layer in the ambit of reservation.

UNI

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