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New Delhi, May 30: An "Oversight Committee" has been set up with the Prime Minister's approval to help implement 27 per cent higher education reservation and suggest seat increases to cushion the impact, it was announced .
The 13-member committee, headed by Administrative Reforms Commission chairman and former Karnataka chief minister Veerappa Moily, includes some of the top technocrats and administrators, the announcement by the Human Resource Development Ministry said.
It said the "Oversight Committee" will get input from 21 experts on engineering, management and academic education and give its findings by August 31.
Planning Commission Member Secretary R R Shah is the group's Member Secretary, and Members include Planning Commission Member Secretary B Mungekar, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Director General R Mashelkar and University Grants Commission Chairman Sukhadeo K Thorat.
They also include Bangalore-based National Law School's former Vice Chancellor G Mohan Gopal, All India Council for Technical Education Vice Chairman R A Yadav, Indian Council of Medical Research Director General N K Ganguly and Former Secretary R V Vaidyanatha Ayyar.
The Secretaries of the Secondary and Higher Education Department, the Health and Family Welfare Ministry, the Agricultural Research and Education Department and the Expenditure Department are its Ex-Officio Members.
The Group will look into: - Implementation of 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Classes in institutes of higher learning; and - Assessment of additional infrastructure and other requirements for increasing the overall availability of seats to a level so that the present level of seats available to the general category students does not decline.
The "Oversight Committee" would get inputs from three Groups which will go into specific details about Universities and Institutes and submit their recommendations by 31st July 2006 on the course of action to be taken to give effect to the reservation in a time-bound manner.
The first Group, on Technological and Engineering Institutions, is headed by former Anna University Vice Chancellor M Anandakrishnan, the second Group, on Management Institutions, by former Indian Institute of Management Director Samuel Paul, and the third Group, on Central Universities, by Jamia Hamdard Chancellor Sayed Hamid.
Their terms of reference: -- To identify in each of the institutions or Universities the courses at undergraduate and post-graduate level and student intake for the academic session 2007-08; -- To identify in each course, the total number of seats for OBCs and consequently to other categories; -- To identify for each course, the increase in the total number of seats so as to maintain the total availability of seats in the unreserved category; -- To determine the requirement of faculty and other infrastructure for the enhanced intake and to determine the additional requirement of recurring and non-recurring expenditure for the same;-- To suggest phasing of expenditure both recurring and non-recurring; -- To suggest measures, in short term, to be taken by each institute for the enhanced intake from the academic session 2007-08; -- To suggest any other preparatory or consequential steps and required to be taken in order to implement the policy of reservations.
The first Group Members: Kanpur-based Indian Institute of Technology Director Sanjay Dhande, IIT Kharagpur Director S K Dube, IIT Jabalpur Director Sanjeev Bhargava, Jaipur-based National Institute of Technology Director R P Dahiya, Bangalor-based Indian Institute of Science Associate Director N Balakrishnan, NIT Warangal Director Y V Rao, IIT Roorkee Dean I M Mishra and National Institute of Public Finance and Policy Professor Indira Rajaraman.
The second group Members: IIM Ahmedabad Director Bakul Dholakia, IIM Kozhikode Director Krishna Kumar, IIM Kolkata Director Shekhar Chaudhury, National Institute of Industrial Engineering Director S D Awale and IIM Lucknow Director Devi Singh.
The third group Members: Banaras Hindu University VC Panjab Singh, Delhi University VC Deepak Pental, Northeastern Hill University VC Pramod Tandon, Hyderabad University VC Syed E. Hasnain and NIPFP Professor M Govinda Rao.