IITs yet to receive notification on sub-quota

Cabinet has approved 4.5 per cent quota for backward class minorities within the 27 per cent quota for Other Backward Classes.

While the Cabinet has approved 4.5 per cent quota for backward class minorities within the 27 per cent quota for Other Backward Classes (OBCs),and even as few ministers have gone a step ahead by promising further increase in the minority quota in future,the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are confused as to whether they will have to implement the sub-quota during admissions this year,as the IITs are yet to receive any notification from the Centre on the implementation of the sub-quota.

The sub-quota,to be implemented in Central government jobs and Central educational institutions,will be applicable to all minorities included in the central list of OBCs. Accordingly,at a meeting on Saturday between officials from the Human Resourse Development Ministry and representatives of various IITs,including chairman and vice chairman of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE-2012),the IITs sought clarifications on the matter.

Sources said that the Ministry official informed the IITs that the minority quota will be applicable for admissions from 2012 itself. The Ministry officials,said sources,also informed that a notification on the matter has already been issued to Centrally-funded institutions and it should reach the IITs soon. This implies that 22.5 per cent seats will be reserved for non-minority OBCs,while 4.5 per cent will be set aside for minority OBCs.

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When asked whether the IITs have received the letter or not,professor Avinash Mahajan,chairman of JEE 2012 from IIT Bombay,said: We are yet to receive the notification on the matter. However,we are geared up to implement the 4.5 per cent minority quota.

Of the 1,38,104 OBC candidates who appeared for JEE 2011,2,545 had qualified for admissions to 2,599 seats. Of this,over 200 seats reserved for OBC candidates could not be filled despite giving relaxations,and these seats got converted to general category seats.

This year,we have already announced the cut-offs for various categories. Accordingly,to make it to the OBC list,an OBC candidate will have to get nine per cent in each subject (physics,chemistry and maths) and an overall score of 31.5 per cent. These cut-offs are considerably lower from last year. Hence,we may not face problems in filling up OBC seats this year,be it minority or non-minority. But the exact picture will emerge only after the JEE results are announced, said a JEE official. The JEE 2012 is scheduled to be held on April 8,while results will be declared on May 18.

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