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PM indulging in 'anti-national' acts of OBC 'hissa chori', 'power grab' through delimitation: Rahul GandhiRahul Gandhi accuses Prime Minister Narendra Modi of stealing OBC rights and attempting a power grab. He claims the proposed amendments to ...
Narendra Modi government wants to 'shelve' caste census: CongressThe Congress party accuses the Modi government of planning to delay a caste census. They claim this is to avoid pressure for OBC women's re...
Manickam Tagore questions 'sudden rush' in delimitation, targets Centre over Women's Reservation Bill timelineCongress MP Manickam Tagore criticised the Centre's plan for the Women's Reservation Bill. He said the sequence should be Census, then deli...
NCBC wants West Bengal, Punjab to raise OBC reservations as quota limit remains unusedNCBC advises West Bengal and Punjab to enhance OBC quota within 50% limit for SCs/STs and OBCs in govt jobs and education, following Suprem...
EWS hearing: SC upholds 10% quota, says it doesn't violate basic structure of ConstitutionA five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court on Monday upheld the validity of the Constitution's 103rd Amendment Act 2019, which pr...
EWS quota breaches 50% ceiling, defeats creamy layer concept, excludes poor SC/ST, OBCs, SC toldThe quota for the Economically Weaker Sections(EWS) is a "deceitful and a backdoor attempt" to destroy the concept of reservation, a lawyer...
OBC Bill: Key things to know about the bill that seeks to undo SC's quota orderA five-judge Constitution bench, on May 5, had unanimously set aside Maharashtra's law granting quota to Marathas. The bench had refused to...
View: Each state making OBC list will mean sub-castes jostling for quotas, a recipe for turmoilThe Bill seeks to rectify a couple of ‘mistakes’ in the Article 338B – inserted by the Constitution (102nd Amendment) Act, 2018 – that crea...
Centre should take initiative to lift 50% quota ceiling: Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray"When I met prime minister Narendra Modi in Delhi (in June), I told him that since the Supreme Court has quashed the Maratha quota and rule...
NDA MPs seek seats for OBC, EWS in Neet’s all-India quotaOBC leaders said that denial of reservations to OBCs in government medical institutions in all-India quota administered by the Centre ‘viol...
Sonia Gandhi writes to PM seeking extension of OBC reservation in all-India quota of medical seatsShe said that reservation for OBC candidates under the all-India quota in the medical entrance examination NEET is currently restricted to ...
10% EWS reservation by 2020 in two phasesThe Centre proposes to implement the 10% quota for the economically-weaker sections (EWS) across all institutes in two academic sessions, o...
Now, Modi govt is working to introduce 10% EWS quota in private institutesThis legislation will provide for implementation of the reservation in private educational institutes.
Government to do away with weeding out 'forwards' among OBCs?The 123rd Constitution amendment bill makes a radical departure from the National Commission for Backward Classes Act (1993) that it seeks ...
OBC forum of MPs also demand quota in promotionThe OBC forum of Parliamentarians raised a demand that quotas in promotions in government jobs be extended to OBCs as well.
- Now, OBC forum too demands quota in promotions
Senior Congress MP & convenor of OBC Forum of MPs, Hanumantha Rao has called a meeting of all OBC MPs on Sept 5, to make the demand.
- SC okays 27% quota for OBCs in higher studies
However, confusion remains over whether quotas would apply to postgraduate courses, such as those at IIMs. Job designations for IIM grads I...