Arjun hell bent on implementing quota

HOPING AGAINST HOPE: Arjun is hoping that he would be ultimately allowed by the SC to implement his pet project.

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New Delhi: Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh is hoping against hope that the proposed quota for OBCs in higher educational institutions comes through.

He's hoping that he would be ultimately allowed by the Supreme Court to implement his pet project from this academic year. "Hope till the hope creates out of its own wreck, the thing it contemplates," he says.

The HRD Ministry has made it clear to all the IIMs that it intends to implement OBC quotas from this academic year.

So, just hours befor the IIM directors were meeting in Delhi to decide on the announcment of results as per the Saturday deadline set by them, directives were sent by the HRD ministry to hold on for the moment.

It's clear that the HRD ministry wants the IIMs to consider candidature of the OBC students as well. The intention is clear — the quotas should be implemented from this academic year.

"I am aware that all the institutions of the state they have the idea of how they have to conduct themselves as institutions of the state," says Arjun Singh.

For the moment, the IIM seems to have complied with the last minute Government directive, but the IIMs will have to heavily rely on Government's optimism that it will sail through with the quota when the Supreme Court hears the case on Monday.