IIMs delay admissions until verdict on quotas
Apr 20, 2007 - 3:04:41 PM
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On March 29, the Supreme Court had stayed the 27 percent quota for OBC students citing lack of data of the said section of the society. However, the HRD ministry had filed a review petition in the court following which the case has been listed for hearing on April 23.
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By Prashant K. Nanda, IANS,
[RxPG] New Delhi, April 20 - The six Indian Institutes of Management - have decided to defer the admission process due to start Saturday. This follows a strongly worded letter from the human resource development - ministry warning them against any 'unilateral' decision until the quota issue is resolved.
The letter sent late Thursday by Ravi Mathur, joint secretary, technical education, at the HRD ministry, said all IIMS should comply with the government direction and admission lists must come only after the court decides on the issue of reserving 27 percent seats for other backward classes -.
'Any unilateral decision by any central educational institution would be a violation of the said communication,' Mathur has said in the letter, a copy of which is with IANS.
'There will be no admission list on Saturday. We have deferred the admission till the quota row is resolved,' Ashok K. Shah, chief communication officer of IIM-Ahmedabad, told IANS.
'Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad regrets to announce that the offer of admission to successful candidates for PGP 2007-09 batch will be made only after the underlying issue is resolved.'
The six IIM directors had earlier decided to meet on Friday to decide upon the first admission list, but the meeting was cancelled after the communication.
Though a similar letter, milder in tone, had gone from the HRD ministry on April 5, the IIMs had said on April 12 that they could not wait for long and would go ahead and issue the first list on April 21 'for the larger interest of the students'.
The latest communication is in response to a letter on April 12 from IIM-Bangalore after the six directors unanimously decided on putting out the first list on April 21.
'The central government has taken note of the above referred communication and reiterates that the policy of reservation being in pursuance of the Act of Parliament - as defined in the central Educational Institutions - Act 2006,' the letter states.
The letter adds that they - are 'required to comply with the communication of even number dated 5th April, 2007' and not issue 'any offers of admission for the academic year 2007 until such institutions receive further communications in this regard from the central government, which will be given at the earliest'.
It clarifies that the government is 'equally concerned with the problems' and is 'taking all steps necessary to facilitate admission of all sections of the students in the Central Educational Institutions at the earliest'.
Following the strongly worded letter, the IIMs have toned down their stance and decided to defer admissions till further communication.
On March 29, the Supreme Court had stayed the 27 percent quota for OBC students citing lack of data of the said section of the society. However, the HRD ministry had filed a review petition in the court following which the case has been listed for hearing on April 23.
The six elite business schools are in Kolkata, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Indore, Lucknow and Kozhikode.
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