Things are better off in the technical educational institutes. Additional Secretary Ashok Thakur said only 23 seats are lying vacant in OBC category in the old IITs, while there is no vacancy in the OBC segment in IIMs. In the new IITs, which started functioning from this academic year, 66 OBC seats are lying vacant. The seats meant for Schedules Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) students have been filled up in all the IITs, he said. However, in IIMs, 13.23 per cent seats have been filled by SC students against their quota of 15 per cent. Similarly 5.62 per cent seats have gone to ST students against their quota of 7.5 per cent.

“The court had said the seats should be preferably filled up by October-end as per the rules and regulations.The upper limit of creamy layer, which has been kept out of quota ambit, has been increased from Rs 2.5 lakh to Rs 4.5 lakh. Given all these issues, we are waiting for the direction of the court,” a senior HRD official said.