The vacant seats in OBC quota should not be opened for general category: SIO
New Delhi: SIO hailed the Supreme Court's verdict to stop undeclared reservation for elites. The National Secretary of Students Islamic Organisation of India Suhail K.K in his speech told that the Supreme Court judgment created confidence in larger section of the society. He was addressing a procession to mark the decision of SC to allot 27 present reservation for OBC, held at Jantar Mantar. He strongly recommended that the decision must be implemented from the coming academic year. SIO will not allow the vacant seats of OBC quota to be opened for general category and the reserved seats must be allotted to all sections of OBC including the ‘creamy layer’. He told that necessary changes must be made in the present rules to accommodate the ‘creamy layer’ under this circumstance.
Reservation is one of the many tools that are used to uplift the socially and economically backward class of the society and it must be ensured in a country like India told Sayyed Mazhar Akhlaque, Assistant editor of The Companion magazine. He asked the judiciary to expedite the matters related to education and give more clearer definitions to avoid speculations and confusions. He urged the government to make access to (higher) education hassle-free by opening more universities and colleges. As far as minorities, especially Muslims are concerned government should establish central universities to ensure their educational upliftment.
Abdur Raheem Shariq (Campus Secretary, SIO Delhi) and Bilal spoke on the occasion.
SIO welcomes the Supreme court's verdict to uphold OBC quota in educational institutions
New Delhi (10 April 2008): SIO welcomes the Supreme Court's verdict to uphold OBC quota in educational institutions. The National president Bishruddeen Sharqi in his press statement told that the new judgment must be implemented soon in all the 20 central universities, the IITs, IIMs and all colleges supported by the Government. The courts observation that the 93rd Constitutional Amendment Act, which was the basis of the law providing 27 per cent reservation in aided institutions, didn't violate the basic structure of the Constitution is appreciable. It is indeed a historic judgment which lifted the court's interim order of March 29, 2007, staying the implementation of the quota and implementing the mandal commission's suggestion. He told, if the creamy layer is to be excluded from the reservation quota, however, the reserved seats must be allotted to all sections of OBC only and must not be opened for the general quota.