OBC quota:

The Supreme Court grilled the Centre on various aspects of the new reservation law providing 27 per cent quota to OBCs in the institutions of higher learning, especially on the question of the hurry shown in passing it in the absence of any data, while reserving its verdict on a bunch of petitions for a stay on the new Act.The main questions raised by a Bench of Mr Justices Arijit Pasayat and Lokeshwar Singh Panta pertained to why the Act should not be deferred for two years to enable the government to collect relevant data to determine the actual percentage of the OBC population and why the seats sought to be raised in IITs, AIIMS, IIMs and other institutions for accommodating the backwards should not be raised in the same proportion as for the general category students.