PTI

New Delhi, Sep 10: The Oversight Committee, which is preparing a roadmap for implementing the 27 per cent OBC reservation in elite Central educational institutions, will meet on September 15 to finalize its report. 

"We will finalize the report on September 15. The draft preparation of the final report is going on," said Committee chairman Veerappa Moily, who was originally scheduled to submit the report to the government by August 31.

The former Karnataka chief minister, who held a series of consultations last month with academicians ahead of finalising the report, had earlier indicated that the implementation of the quota regime was possible only in a staggered manner.

"Some institutions said it [implementation] could be possible in one year and some other institutions felt it may be implemented in two years," he had said.

The committee is also expected to give its "considered view" on the "creamy layer" issue in its final report.

Moily had earlier ruled out any "bulldozing" of the 27 per cent quota for OBCs in elite central institutions and asserted that protecting the excellence of educational institutes would be the "main theme".