New Delhi: The government has issued directives to all Central Institutes to implement quotas from this academic year.
Meanwhile, IIMs who were waiting to release their admission list will also have to comply with the directive. Even the institutes who have completed their admission process will have to implement OBC reservations from this academic year.
The directive comes just days after the Union Government approved changes in the quota bill as directed by the Supreme Court. Fresh directives have gone to all Centrally aided institutes on implementing OBC reservations and it has also been made clear that quotas will be applicable for even post graduate courses.
"We will go by the Supreme Court guideline on the issue," says Pranab Mukherjee.
The directives mean the three-year staggered quota implementation in IITs and IIMs will start this year.
The IIMs could be asked to role out the first installment of quotas between 3 to 8 per cent but institutes have been given liberty to fix certain cut off for OBC students to maintain certain standards.
As the creamy layer is defined, parents earning more than Rs 2.5 lakh per year have to be excluded from the benefits of quota.
Pro-backward political outfits especially from the south have been insisting on increasing the creamy layer limit. However, the matter for the moment has been referred to the National Backward Classes Commission and any changes would be made only after the commission makes its recommendation on the issue.
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