Stay on OBC quota puts IIMs in fix

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Quota puts IIM, medical aspirants in fix

Quota puts IIM, medical aspirants in fix The anti-quota camp across the country have welcomed the stay as a vindication of their stand but students seeking admissions to medical colleges and IIMs are now a worried lot. Supreme Courts stay is likely to affect admissions for the current academic year beginning June 2007. Several thousands students are waiting for a better line than that from HRD Minister Arjun Singh. Their academic and professional future hangs in the balance after the Supreme Courts order staying 27 per cent OBC quota. More : ibnlive.com

Centre to move SC to get stay vacated

Centre to move SC to get stay vacated After the six IIMs decided to declare their merit lists on April 21, IIM-Ahmedabad has said the list of qualified candidates will be released from 11 am onwards on that day. Other IIMs are also expected to follow suit. The government, meanwhile, is expected to move the Supreme Court on Monday. Director of IIM-Bangalore Prof Prakash Apte, who wrote to the Union HRD Ministry on behalf of the IIMs on April 12, has said in his missive that the admission process will be done in two stages - the first list on April 21

OBC quota: Centre may move SC today

OBC quota: Centre may move SC today After the six IIMs decided to declare their merit lists on April 21, IIM-Ahmedabad has said the list of qualified candidates will be released from 11 am onwards on that day. Other IIMs are also expected to follow suit. The government, meanwhile, is expected to move the Supreme Court tomorrow. Director of IIM-Bangalore Prof Prakash Apte, who wrote to the Union HRD Ministry on behalf of the IIMs on April 12, has said in his missive that the admission process will be done in two stages: the first list on April 21 will be as

IIM-A to make position on admission clear on April 21

IIM-A to make position on admission clear on April 21 Even as the Supreme Court has posted the hearing on quota in elite educational institutions case on April 23, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), yesterday said it will make its position on admission to the coming academic session clear on April 21. We will make our postion on admission clear on April 21, IIM-A Director Bakul Dholakia told yesterday night. The six IIMs had given a virtual ultimatum to the government that they would go ahead with the admissions without the OBC quota for the coming academic session if they did

IIMs IITs increasing seats for quota

IIMs IITs increasing seats for quota The IIMs and the IITs have decided to have a slow increase in the percentage of seats for the OBC quota implementation laid by the Veerappa Moily Oversight Committee. The Moily panel has asked all the IITs and IIMs to increase the seats by 18 percent for over three years so as to achieve 54 percent expansion in the seats and at the same time to reserve 9 percent for the OBC students every year so that these institutes can meet the target of 27 percent. Only two IITs - Kanpur and Roorkee are increasing