Agencies
New Delhi, May 15:
The Centre today approached the Supreme Court seeking vacation of the Calcutta High Court order staying the implementation of a government memorandum realating to 27 per cent quota for OBCs in post graduate courses in IIMs.
A Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan allowed the plea of Solicitor General G E Vahanvati to include the matter for hearing in the mentioning list tomorrow.
The Calcutta High Court yesterday stayed quota for OBCs in post-graduate courses in Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and stopped interview of OBC candidates for the same.
Justice Maharaj Sinha, in an ex-parte interim order, granted the stay on a petition by Sayan Guha, a B-Tech student challenging the HRD ministry's memorandum and also the IIM-C interview scheduled for tomorrow. The interim order stayed till June nine the operation of the reservation clause of IIM prospectus and also the resolution of office memorandum dated April 20, 2008 passed by the HRD ministry.
The matter would come up for hearing again on June nine.
IIM-C had scheduled the special interview of OBC students following the HRD memorandum.
Guha's counsels Kishore Dutta and Nilava Bandopadhyay told the court that the office memo and the subsequent reservation clause were in violation of the April 10 Supreme Court order on reservation of OBCs that had set a yardstick for such quotas and defined the creamy layer that would be out of the purview of reservation.
We'll do everything to provide quota: Centre
The Centre on Thursday asserted that it will do everything to provide reservation for OBC students in institutions of higher learning, including IITs and IIMs.
"We will do every thing possible to ensure that these institutions begin admission and provide reservation in 2008-09," finance minister told reporters when asked to comment on a Calcutta High Court order.
Chidambaram said the purpose behind the Centre approaching the apex court was to upturn the Calcutta High Court order so that admission can take place in 2008-09. The Calcutta High Court has stayed quota for OBCs in post-graduate courses in Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and stopped interview of OBC candidates for the same.
The interim order stayed till June nine the operation of the reservation clause of IIM prospectus and also the resolution of office memorandum dated April 20, 2008 passed by the HRD ministry.
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