KOTTAYAM: The Nair Service Society (NSS) has taken exception to the State Government's move to introduce a common entrance test for admission to the B.Ed. course offered by aided education colleges.

In a press note here on Thursday, the NSS general secretary, P.K. Narayana Panicker, said there was reason to suspect that the move was part of an effort to follow the admission pattern now adopted in professional colleges, which granted `communal reservation.'

At present, in education colleges run by forward communities, admission was carried out on the following pattern: 55 per cent merit seats; 15 per cent management quota; 10 per cent community merit quota and 20 per cent SC/ST quota. By extending communal reservation, the SC/ST quota would come down to 10 per cent, he said.

Mr. Panicker alleged that there was a covert move to extend communal reservation to Plus Two, degree and postgraduate courses offered by the aided sector. He asked the authorities to desist from such moves as it would tamper with the delicate balance existing in the socio-education sector of the State.

`A backdoor move'

The NSS assistant secretary, G. Sukumaran Nair, said the move was "part of an effort to implement the Narendran Commission recommendations through the backdoor." Once the new system was introduced, there would be drastic changes in the reservation system, he said.

Once `communal reservation' was introduced, the reservation pattern would be: 65 per cent for merit; nine per cent for Ezhava, eight for Muslim; five for OBC, eight for SC; two for ST; two for Latin Catholic and one for converted Christian. "This is nothing but implementation of what they are terming as Narendran Commission recommendations," Mr Nair said.

The existing system of reservation followed in the aided sector was different from the one followed in the Government sector, and this was arrived at on the basis of an agreement between corporate managements and the Government. If the Government wanted to introduce a restructuring of the time-tested system, it should take the managements into confidence. Instead, it appeared that they are bent on taking unilateral decisions. The NSS was for maintaining the status quo, Mr. Nair said and added that any move to upset the existing system would lead to repercussions.

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