Click to play videoNew Delhi: The future of thousands of students hangs in balance as the Supreme Court hears the OBC quota petition on Monday. The Apex Court will hear the Centre's plea seeking to vacate the stay on 27% reservations for OBCs.
The Supreme Court had stayed the OBC quota on March 29, however, on Friday, the Centre had moved an application before the same bench of the Supreme Court, asking for clarification and lifting of the stay.
Meanwhile, on Saturday the Government issued a directive to all IIMs, asking them not to declare the list of selected candidates until further notice.
Going by the existing academic calendar, the IIM admission lists should have been out latest by April 12.
"For the institutions it means that the sessions will get delayed. From the students' perspective, the impact is going to be that they will be blocking the seats for the students from the other institutes. This also means that the institutes will have to delay the entire process as many of the students will leave in the middle of the session," says Managing Director of Career Launcher Gautam Puri.
Moily mulls over quota
An ideal situation in the higher education sector in India would be not to go in for reservation, a stage which the country has not yet reached, Administrative Reforms Commission Chairman Veerappa Moily said on Sunday.
The need of the hour, he said, was to bring in major changes in higher education, with quality and accountability at all levels in private and public educational institutions.
"We need to humanise and sensitize our educational system,” he was quoted by PTI as saying.
"Unless education is treated as for the public good, we cannot achieve our goals. Broad thinking is required in the educational field. Expansion, inclusion and excellence should be need of the hour in higher education," he said.
Moily also stressed the need to ensure that education was not influenced by profit. He said the UPA Government had placed more emphasis on 'capacity building', with investment of crores of rupees for providing scholarships.
The government was also now looking at various aspects of regulatory agencies such as the UGC and AICTE, including on how to fund them.
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