IIM alumni move SC against reservation
The Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) Alumni Association yesterday filed a petition in Supreme Court (SC) seeking a direction from the court to the government not to implement reservation in higher educational institutions like IITs and IIMs.
The former students of these elite institutions argue that according to Section 4 (B) of the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Act, 2007 itself, quotas would not apply to the institutes of excellence specified in the Act. This should have been reason enough to keep the IITs and IIMs out of the purview of the present statute, they described in the petition.
The alumni association called the caste-based reservation policy unconstitutional and also pointed out the problems of implementing reservation in higher educational institutes. The students claimed that the quality of education at IIMs would be affected if the reservation is implemented. Any compromise made in the process, either in lowering eligibility standards or in reckless expansion of capacity without expansion of faculty, will undoubtedly lower standards of the output.
Source : indiaedunews.net
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