Updated on July 24, 2016
The Veerappa Moily Committee, set up to review all reservation schemes in educational institutes in India, has recommended the setting up of three more IIMs and more IIT-type institutions.
The panel, however, kept evading queries on the politically volatile issue of excluding the ‘creamy layer’ among OBCs from the job quota coverage.
The committee, formed to chalk out a road map for the implementation of 27 per cent OBC quota in central educational institutions, has sought a review of the reservation policy every five or 10 years.
In the report that was finalized on Wednesday, the committee has recommended that higher education be taken to the backward areas of the country. For this, it wants three more IIMs, more institutes like the IITs and medical colleges in these areas.
The panel wants the government to start new scholarships to encourage students from backward classes to pursue higher education.
It has further recommended the creation of new infrastructure in central educational institutions to admit 54 per cent more students from next year. The report explains how the institutes should plan to implement the 27 per cent quota within three years.
The panel has revised the financial package needed to implement the quota — from Rs 16,500 crore to Rs. 17,200 crore.
It has decided to leave the issue of creamy layer to the government. Moily told reporters: "Although we said in the interim report that we would take a view on the issue in the final report, we are not making any references to it."
