The Centre on Monday moved an application before the Supreme Court seeking vacatation of its order staying the implementation of 27 per cent quota for OBCs in elite educational institutions.

The application was mentioned before a bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan which decided to hear it on Tuesday.

Ceratin facts
The Centre has sought vacating the March 29 order. The Centre said, it was approaching with the application for vacation of interim order of March 29 as certain facts and circumstances were discovered subsequently.
It maintained that the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Act 2006 protected the number of seats available to the general category in the previous academic year while increasing seats for socially and educationally backward classes and proportionately for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and therefore was not detrimental to the interest of any section of the population.

 OBC QUOTA IN SYMBIOSIS, DU STAYED
New Delhi, DHNS: The Supreme Court on Monday restrained premier Delhi University and Pune-based Symbiosis International University from implementing the 27 per cent quota for the other backward com munity (OBC) students from the current academic session and referred the Union Government's petition for the vacation of stay on its implementation to the Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan.
Reminding the universities of its earlier order, a bench of Justices B N Agrawal and P P Naolekar asked the authorities to file their replies, explaining why they intended to implement the Central Education Institutions (Reservation in Admissions) Act, 2006 to provide 27 per cent reservation for OBC students in the institutes from the current academic session despite a stay order.