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'Better infrastructure needed to fit in quota students'
Published on Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 23:11, Updated on Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 01:16 in Nation section
Tags: Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe , New Delhi
STUDENTSPEAK: For those already admitted in premiere B-schools, the issue is pressure on infrastructure.
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New Delhi: Anti-reservation students battled the police in Delhi two years after the reservation row began more out of hope than any conviction.
However, with the Supreme Court's go ahead to OBC quotas, the fallout was immediate.
IIM-A Director, Sameer Baruah says, "We were planning on releasing the admission letters by April 11. However, we now need to go back and talk to the other institutes and see if we need to postpone this for some time."
For students like B Jagadeesh Reddy, this means another week of uncertainty — in spite of being short listed for all six IIMs.
Reddy says, "We are talking about a delay, okay. But then till what time?"
For those already in the country's premier B-schools, the concern was the impact on the quality of education.
A management student from Ahmedabad, Ramendra Singh says, "The IIMs need to take a constructive step to reduce the negative impact of this quota verdict like for example increasing the number of seats."
The judgement for the time being does seem to have gone in favour of the Government but students in Mumbai are not losing hope just yet.
A medical student based in Mumbai, Abizar Kapadia says, "We are getting a detailed copy of the order. We will study it and we will take legal advise. We have seven days time to file a review petition."
However, not everyone was disappointed with the judgement.
An IIT Delhi student, Chang Dev Gaekwad says, "Everybody says that this verdict will divide the society, but I think that education is the only tool for uniting the society.
Another student adds, "Each and every person has some capability and if he or she has been given a chance through reservation to do something, then I don't think that it is a bad idea."
The Supreme Court may have shown the middle path for reservations but students concerns have not gone completely unanswered. Now, it's the challenge of implementation of almost 50 per cent of quotas that lies ahead of higher educational institutions.
(With bureau inputs)
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LETTERS c/o EDITOR 11- 04-2008Sir, Sub: Quota politics The recent Apex Court's judgment is appreciated by most people mainly politicians
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we have to think whether reservations a benefit or a braw back for the country and government has to implement
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