OBC quota: SC says vacant seats cannot be carried forward

The Supreme Court has said that seats remaining vacant after implementing the 27 pc OBC quota in central educational institutions have to go to General Category candidates in the same academic year and cannot be carried forward to be filled later. Though no formal order was passed in this regard, the apex court, during a brief hearing was not in agreement with the Centre's stand that the unfilled OBC seats can be accumulated for three years before being alloted to General Category. "Our judgement has clearly said don't allow seats to be vacant," Justice Arijit Pasayat, who was the member of the five-judge Constitution Bench decision on the 27 percent OBC quota, said on Monday.

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