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Quota candidates reserve more UG seats
Isha Jain, TNN | Jul 14, 2011, 01.27am IST
LUCKNOW: With admissions process at Lucknow University almost coming
to an end, the reserved category students in general and OBC in
particular seem to be dominating in most of the undergraduate courses.
Sample this. Out of 1,338 students taking admission in various courses
in the open category, 326 belong to reserved category. This includes a
whopping 248 OBC (Other Backward Class) candidates. The success rate
is relatively high because, besides 27% reservation, OBC candidates
have been able to secure good ranks in general category, thereby
making their category positions inapplicable.
In bachelor of arts (BA), the figures stand at 35%. Out of 438 seats
filled in BA I so far, 214 are grabbed by OBC candidates. Scheduled
caste and scheduled tribe (SC/ST) have occupied 59 seats. In BCom,
nearly 25% seats are occupied by reserved category (SC/ST and OBC)
including 20% alone from OBC.
The university officials though were not sure about the statistics in
BSc I but they assured that it almost equals BCom.
However, the craze for Mathematics among reserved class is on rise
this year. As compared to yesteryears, the percentage of OBC students
opting BSc Mathematics is high in the past two years. In fact, the OBC
candidates seen in BSc are almost double of those in BCom but slightly
lesser than BA. The trend for honour courses is no different.
With reserved class especially OBC dominating LU UG admissions, the
officials believe that a similar trend would prevail in postgraduate
courses too.
The university's reservation policy gives an edge to reserved category
candidates. A total of 50% percent seats in LU are under the reserved
category clearly based on caste and dependency. This horizontal
reservation includes 27% seats for OBC, 21% for SC and 2% for ST.
Remaining 50 per cent seats are treated as 'open category'. However,
there is 25 per cent "vertical reservation" in the open category seats
as well for wards of university employees (10 per cent), college
teachers (five per cent), physically handicapped (three per cent),
dependents of freedom fighters (two per cent) and dependents of
ex-army men (5%). This leaves only around 25% seats for "non-reserved
general candidates."
The high number of OBC candidates making way to UG courses is
indicative of their inclination towards higher studies. Perhaps, the
percentage of backward candidates qualifying in open category is
higher than the horizontal reservation they are entitled to,'' said
Sudhir Panwar, a science faculty in the university.
Suggesting a way out, Uma Tiwari, parent of a student seeking
admission in LU said: "The university's counselling process which
first invites open category selected candidates and then waiting ones
is not justified. If they first finish selected list of all categories
and then go for waiting list, non reserved candidates will be able to
get little more seats.'' She added with this, there is hardly any
scope left for general candidate to get admission.
The open category candidates feel the pinch because open category
seats have been further limited by the provision that "reserved
category candidates" will be treated as "open category candidates", if
they score marks equal to or more than the cut off mark for open
category, which means that they will be selected in open category and
other "low-scoring" reserved candidates will get the seats in the
reserved quota.
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