Pondicherry: A resolution tabled by Chief Minister N. Rangasamy in the Assembly here on Friday unanimously urged the Centre to bring in an ordinance for immediate introduction of the quota of 27 per cent for admission of candidates belonging to Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in higher educational institutions like the Indian Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Management.

The Chief Minister said Parliament had introduced a Bill in this regard on August 25 paving the way for the reservation. But the Bill would be taken up for consideration only in the next session of Parliament.

As the reservation would help procure social justice to OBC candidates, it was felt that an ordinance was necessary.

Candidates in Pondicherry would be helped in admissions in institutions functioning here under the Central Government. The ordinance would help implement the reservation immediately instead of having it in a phased manner.

The Assembly also unanimously adopted another resolution tabled by the Chief Minister urging the Centre to sanction approval to the draft Bill submitted by the Pondicherry Government to ensure fifty percent of seats under government quota in the total sanctioned strength for admission of students of Pondicherry domicile in privately run professional colleges in Pondicherry.

Moving the resolution earlier, the Chief Minister said the Law Department of Pondicherry had sent the draft bill to the Union Home Ministry on August 23.

It was aimed at regulation of admission, fixation of fees and reservation in colleges under government quota.

It would also pave the way for reservation for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe candidates and those belonging to socially and educationally backward communities in educational institutions (except those coming under the category of minority institutions) here. Mr. Rangasamy said students had great difficulty every year to get the assured quota of seats in private professional institutions as there was delay in finalising the seats under Government quota.

Support

S.P. Sivakumar (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam), who supported the resolution, said care should be taken that institutions coming under the minority category should admit only those belonging to that community. Examinations by the managements to admit students under the quota should be held properly, he said.

K. Lakshminarayanan (Puducherry Munnetra Congress) said the necessary legislation should be ready by January so that students joining the professional colleges next year (2007-2008) would get the benefit of reservation.

K. Anandaraman (Pattali Makkal Katchi), R. Viswanathan (Communist Party of India) and A.M.H Nazeem (DMK) welcomed the resolution seeking the Centre's immediate approval of the draft Bill.

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