The new notions of super column FRM model, super row FRM model and mixed super FRM model are introduced in this book. These three models are introduced specially to analyze the biased role of the print media on 27 percent reservation for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in educational institutions run by the Indian Central Government. This book has four chapters. In chapter one the authors introduce the three types of super FRM models. Chapter two uses these three new super fuzzy models to study the role of media which feverishly argued against 27 percent reservation for OBCs in Central Government-run institutions in India. The experts we consulted were divided into 19 groups depending on their profession. These groups of experts gave their opinion and comments on the news-items that appeared about reservations in dailies and weekly magazines, and the gist of these lengthy discussions form the third chapter of this book. The fourth chapter gives the conclusions based on our study. Our study was conducted from April 2006 to March 2007, at which point of time the Supreme Court of India stayed the 27 percent reservation for OBCs in the IITs, IIMs and AIIMS. After the aforesaid injunction from the Supreme Court, the experts did not wish to give their opinion since the matter was sub-judice. The authors deeply acknowledge the service of each and every expert who contributed their opinion and thus made this book a possibility. We have analyzed the data using the opinion of the experts who formed a heterogeneous group consisting of administrators, lawyers, OBC/SC/ST students, upper caste students and Brahmin students, educationalists, university vice-chancellors, directors, professors, teachers, retired Judges, principals of colleges, parents, journalists, members of the public, politicians, doctors, engineers, NGOs and government staff.

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Reservation for Other Backward Classes in Indian Central Government Institutions Like Iits, Iims and Aiims a Study of the Role of Media Using Fuzzy Super FRM Models

Many parents in post-liberation Goa exhibit a pronounced preference for English medium early schooling for their children. The enrolment in the English medium schools, however, is much lower than in the Marathi and Konkani medium schools. This educational situation seems to be the outcome of such factors as mobility aspirations, identity politics, education policy, financial constraints and inaccessibility of English medium schools. This paper examines the language patterns at home and school in Goa and argues that the denial of grants-in-aid to the English medium early schools deprives the poor of the equality of educational opportunities.

Multilingualism, education policy and inequality of educational opportunities : The goan case

The new notions of super column FRM model, super row FRM model and mixed super FRM model are introduced in this book. These three models are introduced specially to analyze the biased role of the print media on 27 percent reservation for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in educational institutions run by the Indian Central Government.

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Reservation for other backward classes in Indian central government institutions like IITs, IIMs and AIIms : a study of the role of media using fuzzy super frm models

Urban stratification represents one of the complex areas of sociological analysis in India. What is most impressive about it is that we know so little about it. The available empirical evidence, however, is consistent in demonstrating the overall stability of status structure in urban India (see e.g., Sovani 1966; Jorapur 1971; and Dubey 19/5). In this paper an
attempt has been made at examining the role of higher education which is essentially an urban phenomenon in stabilizing the social status structure
in urban India, by analyzing the social background of students entering higher and professional education in a metropolis.

N. Jayaram

Papers

Higher education as status stabilizer: students in Bangalore