SC/ST/OBC quotas for FYJC: 4 Jain institutions move Bombay HC
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MUMBAI: Two separate petitions were filed by four Jain minority institutions before Bombay high court, including its Nagpur bench, challenging the inclusion of SC, ST, and OBC reservations in their non-minority FYJC seats.
Additionally, the Maharashtra Association of Minority Educational Institutions, along with three Mumbai colleges, will file a joint petition in HC on Tuesday. The Mumbai-based petitioners will also be adding the incorrect calculation of management and in-house quota seats in the petition, which they say has slashed their seat share by half.
The institutions have termed the state's decision 'unjust' and 'unconstitutional', but govt officials remained firm that the reservations have not been applied to the minority seats and that affirmative action would help students from the backward classes to study in leading minority colleges.
While J C High School and Junior College (Karanja Education Society-Washim), Sitabai Sangai High School and Junior College (Sitabai Sangai Education Society-Amravati), and J D Chawre Vidya Mandir (Shri Mahaveer Shikshan Prasarak Mandal) filed a petition before the Nagpur bench to be heard on Wednesday, Solapur's Walchand College of Arts and Science (APD Jain Pathashala) filed a plea before the principal bench to be heard on Tuesday.
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Christian minority institutions from Nagpur are also likely to join the petition or file a separate one, said a principal.
Many of these colleges realised the change in the equation of FYJC seats after govt put out their seat matrices on the centralised admission portal - mahafyjcadmissions.in. Until last year, social reservations did not apply to minority institutions for FYJC admissions. TOI first highlighted the issue on June 4.
An institute's official said the school education department cited a govt resolution (GR) from May 6, which speaks only about the application of social and parallel reservations to vacant seats in minority quota. The order also mentions that surrendering of minority seats is not mandatory, he said, adding that GR does not mention non-minority seats in their institutes. Petitioners have sought the GR be quashed, modified, and revised, and permission to hold admissions as per the old policy.
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