OBC Quota and Student's dilemma

10th April,2008: Supreme Court gave a historic judgment in India's history by allowing OBC quota minus the creamy layer in the Central funded Institutes for Higher studies.

Was it a co-incidence or it was cruelly designed to be 10th April.

As such a ordinary 10th april , was turned into a consequential day with the IIM results expected on 11th April.

So what it meant was - all the students waiting anxiuosly for the results need to wait indefinitely (thats what IIMs told).

To add to the confusion about the creamy layer, people speculated that the graduates are considered as advanced and hence would be in creamy layer and so IIMs (who provide post graduate diplomas) wont be in the ambit of reservation. But our Mananiya Arjun Singhji told that IIMS are for sure within the ambit.

Leaving that aside lets see some of the effects it would have on poor souls like me -

1) Wait for your results indefinetly, and all the anxiety,uncertainty continues about the elusive IIMs.

2) The delay in results will affect the admission process of other institues who will loose students to IIMs( like XLRI, MDI, NITIE), this would mean agony for the waitlisted students in those colleges -- they will get the admission offers if people vacate seats to go to IIMs.

3) With last date for the institutes whose results are out fast approaching , people who await IIM results will need to pay up the fees in these institutes and then later claim the refund of fees money if they convert IIMs (mind you it takes it own sweet time). But this will mean that they will need to block this money in the institute and then later again arrange for money when IIMs give results.

4) Working people will need to wait for the results to put in their papers, this will affect them serving the notice period.

As of now the last update about the results is that the directors of all the IIMs will meet in shillong in April end and decide about the dates(which we expect to be in early May).