Fight for seats in JNU

* Of the allotted 18 per cent OBC reservation for 2009-2010,JNU managed to fill up only 14.2 %

* The university transferred 83 of the 413 seats to the general category as it claimed it could not find sufficient reserved category students.

* The Aditya Mukerjee Committee had fixed that unreserved candidates should score 30 marks in the entrance exam for postgraduate courses. It fixed the eligibility of OBC and SC/ST candidates at 27 and 25 marks respectively.

* The Mukherjee Committee also came up with the concept of a cut-off,which was different from the eligibility criteria. The mark of the last selected general category student was fixed as the cut-off for the category for that course in that particular year. The OBC cut-off was to be fixed at 10 marks lesser than the general cut-off.

* In 2009,MA Economics had a total of 123 seats on offer. There were 22 OBC seats.

* The mark of the last selected general candidate was 73. The OBC cut-off was then fixed at 63. To be selected to the MA Economics course,an OBC candidate had to score between 72 and 63. Only three candidates did so,after which JNU opened the 19 seats for the general category.

* On the other hand,the university has the same eligibility and cut-off criteria for SC/ST reservations. Therefore,it would have counted all the way down to 25 marks to admit SC/ST students to the MA Economics course.

* If JNU had applied the method it uses for SC/ST reservations,it would have found 79 eligible OBC candidates,by counting down to 27 marks,the OBC eligibility criteria.

* The RTI Act was used to analyse data for 138 OBC seats. Only 35 were filled. If JNU had followed the system it currently uses for SC/ST reservations,it would have filled 81 of the remaining 103 seats.