Tamil Nadu state with more than 3000 seats has passed a bill to allocate 7.5% of the seats to the students from Government schools. In a similar allocation, the Supreme Court on Monday rejected Tamil Nadu’s meantime request seeking implementation of 50 per cent reservation for Other Backward Classes in the State’s medical colleges on seats contributed to the All-India Quota this academic year. The Dravidian parties had approached the apex court when the Center made a clear statement, not possible to implement the quota for OBCs this year. 

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A bench comprising Justices L Nageswara Rao, Hemant Gupta and Ajay Rastogi dismissed the pleas for OBC quota. In July, the Madras High Court directed the Centre to constitute a panel comprising State and Central governments representatives excluding the Medical Council of India to make a decision on the issue of providing OBC reservations in the AIQ seats. The Regional parties urged the state to take immediate steps to secure reservations. 

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The opposition called the State government to exert political pressure on the Centre to implement the reservation for OBC quotas. Several activists and politicians made a point  that the States were allotting such a large margin of seats to the AIQ, the OBCs were losing out on seats that they could avail in non-central universities. It was estimated that the OBCs had lost out on over 10,000 seats in the last three years because the Centre had failed to implement reservation in the AIQ.

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