Oversight panel to release interim report

The Oversight Committee set up to find ways to implement 27 per cent reservation for the OBCs in higher education may come out with an interim report much before its term ends in August.

"We are thinking of giving an interim report to the government. We have to do a lot of advanced planning before implementation of reservation by the 2007 academic year," committee chairman Veerappa Moily today said after the third meeting of the panel.

The committee would give its report on August 31 and before that "we are planning to give an interim report," the former Karnataka chief minister said.

He said that a national colloquium would be organised on July 3 in order to discuss the pros and cons of the measures and build a knowledge society.