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SC nod to implement 50% quota in Uttar Pardesh's private engineering colleges
The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the decks for the Mayawati government to implement its decision to offer 50% quota for SCs, STs and OBCs in admissions to private unaided medical, engineering and other professional educational institutions, except those run by minority communities.
A Bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices P Sathasivam and B S Chauhan stayed an order of the Allahabad High Court, which had restrained the government from going ahead with the 50% quota in private colleges under the UP Admissions to Educational Institutions (Reservation for SCs, STs and OBCs) Act, 2006.
Under this, SCs were to get 21% of the seats in every professional educational institution including aided, unaided and private, STs 2% and OBCs 27%. The state through senior advocate P P Rao and additional advocate general Shail Kumar Dwivedi told the Bench that all associations of private educational institutions were taken into confidence and it was decided that the quota would be implemented from the academic year 2009-10.
They cited the July 17 order of the SC allowing the state to implement the 50% reservation for SCs, STs and OBCs in private colleges, if the latter agreed to the policy decision of the government. After taking legal opinion, the state decided to implement its reservation policy in institutions affiliated to the UP Technical University for the 2009-10 academic session. "About 70% of the counselling is over. Of the 80,631 B.Tech seats, 49,052 have already been allotted of which 7,189 have gone to SCs, 286 to STs and 11,838 to OBCs," the state said.
It said if the HC order restraining the government from implementing the reservation policy at this late stage was not stayed it would require total re-arrangement leading to chaos and confusion among the students.
My View:
It is just another form of discrimination towards brilliant and hard working students and god knows why but Honer able SC gives it a clear signal. On one hand government claims to make the education system more reachable and flexible for all and on another hand constant reservation which creates a gap between the society. Reservation will not only destroy the social structure of a country like us but will also give birth to many other problems. What should a hardworking student who is not SC or ST do now? Is this his fault that he was born in a upper class family and now due to so call reservation can't get admission in spite of having good rank? I am not against reservation but it is the time when we must move on , must reconsider in to the format of giving reservation. The criteria of giving reservation was set up 60 years ago. The world has changed , India has changes a lot since then and this we too need to change, our judiciary and laws need to change. Without creating a balanced society we won't be able to create a balanced India. And this cretainly is not a way to do that.
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