Friday, May 19, 2006

Slicing the pie

The four-member Group of Ministers, which went into the quota issue in the wake of the agitation by medical students, will submit its report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday.

Scenario 1 is the current situation. The GoM has two choices really.

Option 2: OBCs and GC students are adequately appeased. OBCs get 27% seats based on current capacity, which comes from an added capacity of 27%. Note that this scenario violates the current accepted percentages promised - OBCs get only 21% of the total seats and SC/STs get about 18% for free.

Option 3: Capacity is increased by about 53%. SC/ST and OBC groups get their 22.5% and 27% free seats as promised by the "constitution". GC students keep their absolute number of hard earned seats.

Our house punter is on leave, so we won't make a bet.

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