Youth for Equality is looking for few individuals who can stand for a cause.
We have filed few PILs in courts all over the country. We need few more petitioners. If u are willing to support the cause then please cntact on
yfemumbai@gmail.com if u r based in Mumbai or aditya_mithe@rediffmail.com

If you are willing to participate in the movemnet from any place then also mail your name and place.

This is the time to stand for the cause and get yourself counted. The government is trying to fool everyone. We need to challenge them. This is your time. Please come forward and support the movement.
Remember actions are always of greater value than giving mere reactions!

The Government is now on the offensive! They know how to fool people, judiciary, democracy and the so called intelligentia. The decision to change the definition of creamy layer was a long awaited immoral, impractical and arrogant step is now on the sight. The notice attached above and the procedure is all meant for academic/drawing room discourse. In reality all the powerfull and reach OBCs of the country are going to snatch seats in elite institution with wrongly and fradulently being claimed as backward and hence they will snatch and berate the soul of India.

We have to oppose it. It required participation. Write in to the NCBC commission as an individual, on behalf of an organization why even the existing Rs.2.5 Lakh is more than enough and must be reduced to practical level.

1. We are now preparing a series of petition to be filed at different High Courts. One has already been filed at the Delhi High Court in the name of PAN-IIM Vs. Union of India. One hearing is over on 2nd of May 2008 and the final hearing is scheduled on Tuesday. Another is in the pipeline in the name of P.V. Indiresan Vs. Union of India.

2. Our illustrious YFE activist Shweta Gaur is now in Bangalore and busy preparing the petition to be filed at the Karnataka High Court today. It will be Youth For Equality Vs. IIM-Bangalore.

3. Dr. Gunjan Sharma, the gifted orator of YFE and spokesperson of Mumbai YFE Unit is working overtime to prepare and file a petition at the Bombay High Court, with all possibility to be filed on Monday/Tuesday coming.

4. Another young graduate student of 19 year from Kolkata Rajesh Samdder is exceeding all expection and prepared the petition and arranged lawyer to file a petition at the Calcutta High Court in the name of Citizen For Equality Vs. IIT-Kharagpur, NIT-Durgapur and others.

More action is required.

With Hope
Youth For Equality

mere discussions will not help anyone. So please involve yourself. Most of you out here must be doing ur graduation and the one fighting have already completed their studies and are fighting for your future. Its time that you take charge of your own future. Lets teach this government a lesson.
Action are always greater than only reactions. Call Saroj Rath on 9868386454 if u are based in Delhi.

Now RESERVATIONS in Judiciary…………
This is latest news from Chennai………

CHENNAI: Minister of State Parliamentary Affairs and Planning V. Narayanasamy said Thursday that social justice would be complete if only reservation was extended to the judiciary.
At a meeting organised by the All-India Federation of Other Backward Classes Employees Welfare Association to felicitate him, he said the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Act, 2006, providing the OBCs with 27 per cent reservation should be included in the IX Schedule of the Constitution to insulate it from judicial interference.
Mr. Narayanasamy also demanded that a Parliament Standing Committee be set up for the OBCs. “We have submitted a memorandum, on behalf of the OBC MPs Forum, to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and he told us that he fully agreed with us,” he said.
Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Industries V. Hanumantha Rao said reservation in the judiciary was necessary to ensure that the people got right judgments.
Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president M. Krishnasamy wanted the creamy layer to go, “as it is a stumbling block for the talented OBC students.”

YOUTH FOR EQUALITY

The 6th May 2008, 6.15p.m.
In protest of Govt’s move to implement reservation in PG level courses Youth For Equality formed a human chain of students from institutions across Delhi like Delhi University, JNU,GGSIPU, MAMC, UCMS, DCE and AIIMS. Around 500 students formed human chain with Banners and posters at inner circle of Connought Place (central Park). Then students marched towards janpath with the effigy of Mr Arjun Singh (HRD Minister) and blocked the traffic for more than half an hour at Janpath and burnt the effigy of Arjun Singh. The march was aimed towards the residence of Ms Sonia Gandhi, Chairperson UPA, however they were prevented to move forward at Janpath. Police used water cannon to disperse the mass but the students who are deeply hurt by the manipulation of Supreme Courts order in Implementing OBC Quota, they resisted.

Around 350 students were arrested from Janpath and are detained at Parliament Street Police station. Students are not released till now.

Our demands are:

ü No extension of reservation beyond graduation as per the Court’s order.
ü No manipulation in Creamy layer limit.
ü Fresh list of beneficiaries has to be furnished by Govt before implementing reservation.
ü Before implementing reservation Infrastructure must be made available in order to retain the quality of education.
ü Time bound reservation.

We are gearing up this protest; if Govt goes ahead with such autocratic attitude in implementing reservation then we will go for nation wide agitation.
If you want to join YFE:
Delhi: Mail to saroj1saroj@gmail.com
and
Mumbai:yfemumbai@gmail.com
If u ar elocated elsewhere then email any of the IDs you will be directed to right person.
Please support the cause.

OBC Quota Stayed by Calcutta High Court
In a jolt to the Centre, the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday stayed quota for Other Backward Classes in post- graduate courses in the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and stopped the interview of OBC candidates for the same.
Justice Maharaj Sinha, in an ex-parte interim order, granted the stay on a petition by Sayan Guha, a B-Tech student challenging the Human Resource Ministry’s memorandum and also the IIM-C interview scheduled for Thursday.
The interim order stayed the operation of the reservation clause of IIM prospectus and also the resolution of office memorandum dated April 20, 2008, passed by the HRD Ministry. The matter would come up for hearing again on June 9.
The IIM-C had scheduled the special interview of OBC students following the HRD memorandum. Guha’s counsels Kishore Dutta and Nilava Bandopadhyay told the court that the office memo and the subsequent reservation clause were in violation of the April 10 Supreme Court order on reservation of OBCs, that had set a yardstick for such quotas and defined the creamy layer that would be out of the purview of reservation.
They said while the apex court had directed that graduates would not be considered for reservation, the HRD ministry had, in violation of that, passed an office memo to the effect that OBC students would get reservation in post-graduate courses. No counsel appeared for the HRD Ministry and the IIM-C.
from: http://www.rediff.com

THE SUPREME Court on Monday stayed a Madras high Court order quashing a provision in the Civil Services Examination Rules that allowed reserved category candidates qualifying in the general category to take benefit of reservation for allocation of better service and cadre postings.

The high court had quashed the provision on the ground that it made a mockery of the entire rule of reservation as it actually pushed reserved category candidates out of the merit list by al- lowing OBC/SCT/ST candidates competing in the open category to re- turn to reserved category for alloca- tion of better service.

Issuing notices to the three candidates on whose petition the high court had quashed Rule 16(2), the apex court asked them to file their response to the Centre’s petition within three weeks and posted the matter for hearing after the summer vacation. In its appeal, the Centre contended that if an OBC/SC/ST stu dent, qualifying the civil services on his/her own merit, was not given the benefit of reservation in allocation of services and cadre, it would result in an anomaly Non-meritorious back . ward category aspirants would get better and higher services compared to those allocated to their meritorious counterparts, it pointed out.

Following the high court’s order, the UPSC had provisionally declared the results on May 16 making it clear that it was subject to the outcome of its appeal pending in the Supreme Court. With the Supreme Court staying the high court’s verdict, the UPSC can now announce the final results providing quota benefit in allocation of better services and cadres to those OBC/SC/ST candidates, who have qualified the examination on merit and were placed in the general category .

IANS Thursday 29th May, 2008

The other backward classes (OBCs), who have been granted 27 percent quota in government jobs and educational institutions for being socially and economically backward, own 15.92 million entrepreneurial units, says the official Economic Census for 2005, released Thursday.

People from the Scheduled Castes (SCs), another marginalised section of society with 15 percent reservation in government jobs and colleges, own 3.69 million units, while those from Scheduled Tribes (STs) run 1.52 million units, according to the 2005 data.

The Economic Census released here by the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) of the statistics and programme implementation ministry said as many as 41.82 million establishments were in operation in 2005.

Out of a total of 6.08 million establishments in the farm sector, the share of OBCs was 2.81 million or 46.24 percent, while that of SCs was 0.61 million or 10.08 percent. STs accounted for only 0.38 million or 6.32 percent.

‘Over 93 percent of these units owned by OBCs, SCs, and STs were in rural areas,’ said S.K. Nath, director general of CSO, which conducted the Economic Census that gives not only an insight into India’s economy but also intends to meet the requirements of planners, policy makers and researchers.

The census says that 100.9 million people were employed in 41.83 million establishments in India in 2005, out of which 25.54 million units were in rural areas and 16.29 million in urban areas.

Five states accounting for about 50 percent of total employment in organised and unorganised sectors were Andhra Pradesh (11.20 million), Maharashtra (11.31 million), Tamil Nadu (10.06 million), Uttar Pradesh (8.15 million) and West Bengal (10.03 million).