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Malkarnekar,TNN | Jan 17, 2014, 03.57 AM IST
PANAJI: With the state government raising the reservation quota for persons of other backward classes (OBC) to 27% from the earlier 19.5%, the additional seats during admissions to Goa's professional courses are most likely to be sourced from those available to the general category.
The biggest impact will be seen in engineering colleges, where only 28% of the seats will now be available to merit students of the general category after the quota for OBC, scheduled caste, scheduled tribe, ex-servicemen and other categories are added up.
The new enhancement in reservation for OBCs will mean that only 353 of the 1,230 engineering seats in Goa will be up for grabs for the general category, a drop of a massive 90 seats that will now be credited to the OBC category. The condition is going to be more acute in private engineering colleges where seats are also reserved under the management quota, which results in the 28% availability to general category students.
In Goa's professional colleges, other than the reservation to OBC, there is 12% reservation to ST, 2% reservation to SC, 3% to physically handicapped, and other reservations of 1% seats each to those belonging to families of freedom fighters and ex-servicemen.
Additionally, seats for professional courses are also reserved for children of central service personnel who are transferred to Goa, NRIs and Goan natives whose parents or grandparents have migrated abroad. While 4% seats are reserved for central service personnel, the seats for the NRI and Goan native categories vary for each course.
Goa continues to offer reserved seats to children of central service personnel transferred to Goa on duty, NRIs and Goan natives, even though the state is not duty bound by the Indian Constitution to mark seats for persons in these categories. But the state has opted to do so, which eats into the general category quota.
Seats in private engineering colleges for students of general category are normally arrived at by deducting the percentage of seats reserved under the various categories and then subtracting the number of seats (around 15 in number per engineering stream) under the management quota from the remainder of the seats. Management quota seats are not deducted percentage-wise along with reservations under other categories.
After engineering, the biggest impact of the 27% OBC reservation will be seen in case of pharmacy seats in Goa, where only 33% seats of the total 120 seats will now be available to the general category. The OBC quota now stands enhanced by 8 seats to a total of 34 in its kitty.
In the Goa Medical College, where the state also has to make seats available under the all India quota, nine more seats will be available under the OBC category now, taking the section's quota to 34 of the total 127 to 128 seats available to Goa depending on the all India quota.
In case of the dentistry, architecture and homeopathy courses in Goa, 47% seats will now be available under the general category.
Of the 34 dentistry seats available to Goan students, it will be a tough battle for general category seats with only 16 up for grabs-a reduction by two seats. Nine seats will be available to OBC students. In the architecture and homeopathy courses, where 40 and 42 seats, respectively, are available, 11 each will be reserved for OBC students, while 19 and 20 will be available to students from the general category
PANAJI: With the state government raising the reservation quota for persons of other backward classes (OBC) to 27% from the earlier 19.5%, the additional seats during admissions to Goa's professional courses are most likely to be sourced from those available to the general category.
The biggest impact will be seen in engineering colleges, where only 28% of the seats will now be available to merit students of the general category after the quota for OBC, scheduled caste, scheduled tribe, ex-servicemen and other categories are added up.
The new enhancement in reservation for OBCs will mean that only 353 of the 1,230 engineering seats in Goa will be up for grabs for the general category, a drop of a massive 90 seats that will now be credited to the OBC category. The condition is going to be more acute in private engineering colleges where seats are also reserved under the management quota, which results in the 28% availability to general category students.
In Goa's professional colleges, other than the reservation to OBC, there is 12% reservation to ST, 2% reservation to SC, 3% to physically handicapped, and other reservations of 1% seats each to those belonging to families of freedom fighters and ex-servicemen.
Additionally, seats for professional courses are also reserved for children of central service personnel who are transferred to Goa, NRIs and Goan natives whose parents or grandparents have migrated abroad. While 4% seats are reserved for central service personnel, the seats for the NRI and Goan native categories vary for each course.
Goa continues to offer reserved seats to children of central service personnel transferred to Goa on duty, NRIs and Goan natives, even though the state is not duty bound by the Indian Constitution to mark seats for persons in these categories. But the state has opted to do so, which eats into the general category quota.
Seats in private engineering colleges for students of general category are normally arrived at by deducting the percentage of seats reserved under the various categories and then subtracting the number of seats (around 15 in number per engineering stream) under the management quota from the remainder of the seats. Management quota seats are not deducted percentage-wise along with reservations under other categories.
After engineering, the biggest impact of the 27% OBC reservation will be seen in case of pharmacy seats in Goa, where only 33% seats of the total 120 seats will now be available to the general category. The OBC quota now stands enhanced by 8 seats to a total of 34 in its kitty.
In the Goa Medical College, where the state also has to make seats available under the all India quota, nine more seats will be available under the OBC category now, taking the section's quota to 34 of the total 127 to 128 seats available to Goa depending on the all India quota.
In case of the dentistry, architecture and homeopathy courses in Goa, 47% seats will now be available under the general category.
Of the 34 dentistry seats available to Goan students, it will be a tough battle for general category seats with only 16 up for grabs-a reduction by two seats. Nine seats will be available to OBC students. In the architecture and homeopathy courses, where 40 and 42 seats, respectively, are available, 11 each will be reserved for OBC students, while 19 and 20 will be available to students from the general category
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