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New Delhi: Post the Supreme Court ruling on OBC quota, management campuses are scurrying to do what they are best at: juggling numbers.
They are trying to figure out ways of implementing the quota in the new academic session a few months from now.
The quota has to be introduced in a phased manner without changing the number of general seats.
IIM-Ahmedabad and IIM-Calcutta say they have no problems. This is the rough calculation they are working on:
If the total number of seats is 100, so far 23 were reserved for SCs, leaving 77 general seats. Now, 28 seats will be for OBCs as well. But the number of general seats will have to stay intact.
So that means, now, to keep that number constant, 54 per cent new seats will have to be added.
Only then the OBC plus SC reservation will go up to 49.5 or nearly 50 per cent.
IIM Bangalore is yet to work that arithmetic out
This is how some of the IIMs like Calcutta and Ahmedabad are planning to introduce OBC reservation in phases:
* Six per cent in the first year.
* 30 per cent in second year
* 18 per cent in third year
IITs and medical colleges will follow similar phased increases, with the first year's increase of OBC seats to be between six and 10 per cent.
But the arithmetic is not that clear with central universities, which are lagging behind IITs and IIMs in infrastructure and faculty positions.
And for them, the addition of the extra seats will be a much tougher task.
They are trying to figure out ways of implementing the quota in the new academic session a few months from now.
The quota has to be introduced in a phased manner without changing the number of general seats.
IIM-Ahmedabad and IIM-Calcutta say they have no problems. This is the rough calculation they are working on:
If the total number of seats is 100, so far 23 were reserved for SCs, leaving 77 general seats. Now, 28 seats will be for OBCs as well. But the number of general seats will have to stay intact.
So that means, now, to keep that number constant, 54 per cent new seats will have to be added.
Only then the OBC plus SC reservation will go up to 49.5 or nearly 50 per cent.
IIM Bangalore is yet to work that arithmetic out
This is how some of the IIMs like Calcutta and Ahmedabad are planning to introduce OBC reservation in phases:
* Six per cent in the first year.
* 30 per cent in second year
* 18 per cent in third year
IITs and medical colleges will follow similar phased increases, with the first year's increase of OBC seats to be between six and 10 per cent.
But the arithmetic is not that clear with central universities, which are lagging behind IITs and IIMs in infrastructure and faculty positions.
And for them, the addition of the extra seats will be a much tougher task.
