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SFI defends quota

Kozhikode: Justifying the Union Government's move to provide 27 per cent reservation to Backward Classes (BCs) in higher educational institutions in the country, the pro-CPI(M) Students Federation of India (SFI) on Wednesday called for enactment of effective laws for its implementation.

Addressing a press conference here, SFI president K.K. Ragesh said the 93rd amendment to the Constitution enabled Parliament and State Legislatures to make appropriate law to implement reservation to BCs in higher educational institutions in the country.

Seeking to include economically backward sections of upper classes in the ambit of reservation, he said agitation by a certain sections of students in the country was only aimed at scuttling the quota system.

Mr. Ragesh said merit should also be a criterion for including students in the reservation quota so that standard of education could be maintained.

Citing the example of Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi maintaining its status as a premier educational institution despite giving reservation to various categories of students, he said quota to deserving candidates would not decline the standard of education as alleged by the agitators.

He said the SFI would take out a Raj Bhavan March in Thiruvananthapuram demanding enactment of effective laws for the purpose. — UNI

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