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Campaign to press for quota for OBCs

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State has failed to undertake caste-wise census, says ex-judge

VISAKHAPATNAM: Former Judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court B.S.A. Swamy has said all the Backward Classes people's representatives will be pressured to make the Government ensure 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs).

He was reacting to the Supreme Court stay order on providing reservation to OBCs in higher educational institutions like IIMs and IITs, at a press conference here on Friday.

One disadvantage faced by the OBCs (in the Supreme Court case) was the lack of statistics of population of BCs. The Government, in spite of the BC organisations demanding since 1960, did not take up caste-wise census, he pointed out.

Reservation quota was allotted to SCs and STs based on their population and this had helped these sections pursue education and secure jobs at the top level. But how many BCs were there in IAS and IPS cadres, he asked, stressing on the point that the reservations for them were not fixed according to their population since their number was not determined officially.

`Inconsistent aspect'

Reservation available in employment but not in education was an inconsistent aspect, he pointed out. Even the Government was not sincere as reflected by the Prime Minster's statement when a stay was sought that the reservations would be effected from next year.

A senior professor of Hindi S. Surappadu and some other Andhra University professors were present. Prof. M. Prasada Rao pointed out that the admissions through CAT would take place in June while the hearing of a case regarding admissions would come up in August. This would lead to a situation of some 600 OBC students not being able to get justice.

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