ORDER :- On June 22,1984, a three-Judge Bench to which one of us was a party delivered the judgment in a group of writ petitions and while disapproving of the prevailing wholesale reservation on different scores in regard to admission of students into medical courses of study such as M.B.B.S. and Post Graduate specialities, proceeded to observe that "the very mandate of the equality clause viewed in the perspective of social justice would justify some extent of reservation based upon residence requirement within the State or on institutional preferences for students passing the qualifying examination." One of the considerations - perhaps the primary one - in formulating the scheme for creating a national forum for choice of candidates for the reserved seats - was the growth of a broad-based national approach as against the prevailing State-based reservationist policy.

2. The judgment was delivered during the long vacation of the court perhaps with the fond hope that the scheme evolved by this Court could be implemented in the educational session to follow. This Court had not then assessed what magnitude the task of implementation of the scheme would involve.

3. When the scheme did no