S.1 Short title

       This Act may be called the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Act, 2006.

S.2 Definitions

       In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
        (a) “academic session” means the period in a calendar year, or a part thereof, during which a Central Educational Institution is open for teaching or instruction in any branch of study or faculty;
        (b) “annual permitted strength” means the number of seats, in a course or programme for teaching or instruction in each branch of study or faculty authorised by an appropriate authority for admission of students to a Central Educational Institution;
        (c) “appropriate authority” means the University Grants Commission, the Bar Council of India, the Medical Council of India, the All India Council for Technical Education or any other authority or body established by or under a Central Act for the determination, coordination or mai

S.3 Reservation of seats in Central Educational Institutions

       The reservation of seats in admission and its extent in a Central Educational Institution shall be provided in the following manner, namely:—
        (i) out of the annual permitted strength in each branch of study or faculty, fifteen per cent. seats shall be reserved for the Scheduled Castes;
        (ii) out of the annual permitted strength in each branch of study or faculty, seven and one-half per cent. seats shall be reserved for the Scheduled Tribes;
        (iii) out of the annual permitted strength in each branch of study or faculty, twenty-seven per cent. seats shall be reserved for the Other Backward Classes.

S.4 Act not to apply in certain cases

       The provisions of section 3 of this Act shall not apply to—
        (a) a Central Educational Institution established in the tribal areas referred to in the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution;
        (b) the institutions of excellence, research institutions, institutions of national and strategic importance specified in the Schedule to this Act:
        Provided that the Central Government may, as and when considered necessary, by notification in the Official Gazette, amend the Schedule;
        (c) a Minority Educational Institution as defined in this Act;
        (d) a course or programme at high levels of specialisation, including at the post-doctoral level, within any branch of study or faculty

S.5 Mandatory increase of seats

       (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in clause (iii) of section 3 and in any other law for the time being in force, every Central Educational Institution shall, with the prior approval of the appropriate authority, increase the number of seats in a branch of study or faculty over and above its annual permitted strength so that the number of seats, excluding those reserved for the persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and the Other Backward Classes, is not less than the number of such seats available for the academic session immediately preceding the date of the coming into force of this Act.
       (2) Where, on a representation by any Central Educational Institution, the Central Government, in consultation with the appropriate authority, is satisfied that for reasons of financial, physical or academic limitations or in order to maintain the standards of educat

S.6 Reservation of seats in admissions to begin in calendar year, 2007

       The Central Educational Institutions shall take all necessary steps, which are required in giving effect to the provisions of sections 3, 4 and 5 of this Act, for the purposes of reservation of seats in admissions to its academic sessions commencing on and from the calendar year, 2007.

S.7 Laying of notifications before Parliament

       Every notification made under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of Parliament while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any modification in the notification or both Houses agree that the notification should not be made, the notification shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that notification.

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