new delhi the union cabinet on friday gave the green signal for promulgating an ordinance to amend the national commission for minority educational institutions act ncmei 2004the amendment bill tabled in the monsoon session was sent to the standing committee of parliament and could not be taken up in the winter session necessitating the ordinancein the immediate context once the ordinance is promulgated the national commission for minority educational institutions would be set up ncmei would be inundated with requests from minority educational institutions seeking exemption from giving reservation to scstobc studentsthe 104th constitutional amendment passed during the winter session leaves minority institutions out of the reservation umbrella in aidedunaided educational institutions but the certificate of exemption should come from ncmei that is it would verify the credentials of minority institutions and even cancel recognitionhowever neither does the ncmei amendment bill nor the standing committee of parliament clarify what would be the criterion to get the status of a minority educational institution set up under article 30 of the constitution would it be the percentage of minority students an official said it would now be the job of ncmei to fix the parameters