Quota
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Quota provides backward classes opportunity which evades them due to structural barriers: SC
India | Jan 21, 2022, 10:41 AM ISTIt said that the high scores in an examination are not a proxy for merit, which should be contextualised and re-conceptualized as an instrument that advances social goods like equality.
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VIDEO: Lok Sabha passes bill to restore states' power to make their own OBC lists
News | Aug 11, 2021, 07:15 AM ISTLok Sabha on Tuesday passed the Constitution (127th Amendment) Bill 2021 after a thaw in the logjam as Opposition parties backed the legislation but demanded the removal of the 50 per cent cap on reservation and many of them also called for a caste-based census.
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OBC quota issue: Maharashtra Assembly passes resolution to seek 2011 census data from Centre
India | Jul 05, 2021, 02:51 PM ISTThe Maharashtra Legislative Assembly on Monday passed a resolution urging the Centre to provide the 2011 census data to enable the State Backward Class Commission to prepare an empirical data of the OBC population.
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Telangana govt to implement 10 per cent quota for economically weaker sections
India | Jan 21, 2021, 05:49 PM ISTNearly two years after the Centre announced 10 per cent reservation for the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) in government jobs and educational institutions, the Telangana government on Thursday said it has decided to implement the quota in the state.
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Quota stir: Gujjar agitation begins in Rajasthan as divide erupts among leaders
News | Nov 01, 2020, 08:24 PM ISTAmid fears that Gujjars may disrupt rail and road traffic in Rajasthan, the quota agitation by the Gujjar Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti began on a tepid note on November 1.
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Will take appropriate steps on SC ruling on quotas: Centre
India | Feb 10, 2020, 05:06 PM ISTThe Centre on Monday told the Lok Sabha that it would take "appropriate steps" following the Supreme Court's ruling on reservation in jobs and promotions for SCs/STs after considering the issue at the highest level.
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10% quota for poor students in government-run colleges and universities in Uttarakhand
Education | Jul 31, 2019, 05:02 PM ISTPoor students of unreserved categories in Uttarakhand will now get 10 per cent quota in admission to government-run universities and colleges. An order to this effect was issued on Tuesday by Principal Secretary Higher Education Anand Bardhan in compliance with a directive of the Union Ministry of Human Resource.
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Quota politics: Reservation in private sector adds new dimension across states
India | Jul 26, 2019, 11:14 AM ISTEarlier this month, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath too promised to bring a law to provide 70 per cent reservation for locals in the private companies in the state.
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Madhya Pradesh government issues orders for 10 per cent general category EWS quota
India | Jul 03, 2019, 08:36 AM ISTThe order issued by Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), General Administration Department (GAD), PC Meena stated that family income of an eligible candidate should not exceed Rs 8 lakh annually.
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Vacancies due to students not availing SEBC, EWS quota: Maharashtra Education Minister Shelar
Education | Jun 28, 2019, 04:53 PM ISTMaharashtra School Education Minister Ashish Shelar Friday told the state Assembly that students belonging to Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC), as well as the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS), had not availed quota meant for them in junior college admissions, resulting in a large number of vacancies.
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10% EWS quota cannot be applied to PG medical courses in Maharashtra for 2019-20: SC
Education | May 30, 2019, 12:52 PM ISTA vacation bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Aniruddha Bose said 10 per cent EWS quota cannot be granted at the cost of others unless additional seats are created by the Medical Council of India.
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All applicants from big states cleared for going on Haj after hike in India's quota
India | Apr 19, 2019, 03:25 PM ISTOn Friday, the Saudi Arabian government issued a formal order with regard to the increase in India's Haj quota.
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Rajasthan govt introduces 5 pc quota Bill for protesting Gujjars, 4 other castes
National | Feb 13, 2019, 02:51 PM ISTGujjar leaders were yet to call off their protest, saying they are awaiting a “concrete proposal” from the government, indicating that they wanted the bill to be passed first.
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10% EWS quota in government recruitment from February 1: Centre
India | Jan 24, 2019, 08:16 PM ISTBeginning next month, all central government posts will be filled after factoring in the recently approved 10 per cent reservation for economically weaker sections (EWS), according to an official order.
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No EWS quota to those who settled in Gujarat after 1978: Government
India | Jan 24, 2019, 08:08 PM ISTThe Gujarat government has said those who have settled in the state after 1978 will not get the benefit of 10 per cent reservation for the economically weaker sections (EWS) in the general category.
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Himachal Pradesh Cabinet decides to implement 10 percent quota for EWS in government jobs
India | Jan 19, 2019, 09:45 PM ISTHimachal Pradesh Cabinet decided to provide 10 per cent reservation to economically weaker sections from the general category in state government services in Class-I, II, III and IV posts, an official spokesperson said here.
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HRD to increase nearly 25% seats in universities to implement 10% quota for poor in general category
Higher Studies | Jan 15, 2019, 08:35 PM ISTUnion Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar informed that the decision was taken at a meeting of officials from the ministry, University Grants Commission (UGC) and the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE).
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Supreme Court dismisses plea seeking quota in jobs for persons suffering from thalassemia
India | Jan 14, 2019, 10:00 PM ISTThe Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear the plea seeking grant of benefit of reservation in government jobs to persons suffering from thalassemia, sickle cell and hemophilia diseases.
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Quota for upper caste | Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani decides to implement 10 per cent reservation in state
National | Jan 14, 2019, 11:14 AM ISTWith the new 10 per cent quota becoming law with the President's assent, the total reservation in jobs and education now stands at 59.5 per cent.
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Election stunt, says Mayawati on Centre's move to give 10pc quota to economically weak
Jan 08, 2019, 12:30 PM ISTArticles 15 and 16 of the Constitution will have to be amended for implementation of the decision.