New Delhi: Following the Supreme Court stay on the implementation of OBC quota the HRD Ministry has asked all the IIMs, IITs and centrally funded institutions to put on hold the admission process.

The Ministry has told the Central educational institutions including top medical, engineering and management schools like IIMs not to issue offer of admission, Ministry sources said.

They said that the managements of these institutions have been told to keep the entire admission process on hold "till they hear from the ministry".

The directive from the Ministry comes a day after a meeting of leaders of UPA and Left parties which resolved that a the government would take all "appropriate" steps to ensure that the reservation for OBCs to the extent of 27 per cent becomes operational from this academic session.