New Delhi: The five groups of experts under the Oversight Committee constituted to facilitate implementation of 27 per cent quotas in central educational institutions will meet on June 8.
The meeting will help to help chalk out a roadmap for reservation.
"The sub-groups will meet on June 8 to chalk out a broad based roadmap for implementation of reservation in central educational institutions while ensuring that the interests of those in the general category are also protected," Moily said after the first meeting of the experts.
Moily declined to give details of what transpired in the meeting.
"Expansion, inclusion and excellence" would be the buzzwords of the Oversight Committee, Moily said adding the June 8 meeting will also decide to make the reservation roadmap "broad-based" by holding consultations with other experts who are not part of the Committee.
"We will discuss how to go in for innovations to implement reservations but will also ensure that merit and brandnames of elite institutions remain intact," he said.
Asked whether the Committee will also discuss the issue of excluding the "creamy layer" among OBCs from quota, Moily said, "It needs to be decided whether the Committee has the mandate to decide on it."
Seeking to allay apprehensions, Moily said the Centre would be able to successfully implement reservations for OBCs and at the same time create infrastructure to increase seats for general category students by the start of the next academic year.
"Whatever infrastructure needs to be created will be done within the next academic year. The Government will even consider relaxation of certain rules to ensure that it is completed before time," he assured.
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