The report said reserved category students who clear through open competition cannot be counted against their respective quotas.

The committee has also called for the inclusion in the bill, an effective “monitoring and reviewing authority for implementation,” of these provisions, “without affecting the autonomy of the institutions.”

Minority question

There is no finality yet on what the Committee is set to say on the most sensitive matter, of blanket exemption of all minority institutions from reservation. A large majority of the standing committee is of the opinion that the OBCs and Dalits within the particular minority committee should get quotas in the institutions run by the community. If this suggestion becomes part of the final report, then Christian, Muslim or any other minority institutions will have to give quotas for SC and OBCs amongst them.