27% OBC quota for admissions to educational institutions faculty was approved by the Centre but the Supreme Court has decided to check the validity of this decision. Extending the identical reservation quota to the senior faculty posts for the institutes of excellences has given rise to several disputes.
Elated by the accomplishment of apex courts sustaining their affirmative feat, for OBC quota in college admissions, a request for implementing the 27% quota for faculty posts had been given by the Human Resources and Development Ministry. This applied to institutes like IIT and similar universities which led to strong condemnations by various alumni and groups.
The NGO ‘Citizens for Equality’ submitted a PIL, which was moved through counsel Gopal Shankarnarayan, and protested the loss of academic excellence. This PIL was submitted before the bench including Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, Justices J M Panchal and P Sathasivam. Reponses of the HRD ministry and the UGC or the University Grants Commission had been sought within three weeks by the bench.
The petitioner NGO and senior advocate K K Venugopal had submitted his argument for application of reservations, at entry levels of teaching personnel, which is the post of the lecturer, was already in practice. Extending this decision to posts of associate professor and also professor will be result in disaster for all institutes of excellences like the JNU or Jawaharlal Nehru University. Filling these posts through merits has been argued by Venugopal. Deviating from the same would result in compromise for excellence in the educational field, for which India was known all over the world.
The example cited by the petitioner is the example of professors who supervised doctoral thesis for higher educational competence. Compromising here will be a setback for the higher level education and institutes. Capability of staff, selected through quota, for higher levels would lead to gross breach of principles of equality and reflect negatively on the elite institutes and their teaching patterns. The decision is pending with the Supreme Court.
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