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UP Cabinet expansion: Akhilesh Yadav questions BJP over accommodation of turncoat leadersSamajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav has questioned the upcoming Uttar Pradesh cabinet expansion by the BJP government. He raised concerns...
Backwardness only criteria for OBC classification, says Bengal CM Mamata BanerjeeWest Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee clarified in the assembly that OBC classification is based solely on a community's backwardness, not religio...
Proposal for revision of OBC creamy layer income criteria under consideration: GovtResponding to another question, Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Rattan Lal Kataria said a committee was constituted to...
Govt expands minority development plan to 308 districts from 196While expanding the scheme, the government “rationalised” the criteria for identification of minority concentration towns (MCTs) and villag...
Financial package for Seemandhra triggers renewed demands for ‘special status’ by Bihar, Odisha‘Special category’ states are those that are effectively entitled to extra funds, on easier terms, from the central govt. Such states face ...
Nitish Kumar pins special status hope on central committee report"Let us see what decision the govt takes of the special committee headed by the Finance Ministry's chief economic advisor Raghuram Rajan," ...
Nitish Kumar demands special statusDemanding special category status for Bihar to fast track its economic development, Nitish Kumar today pinned hope on the high-level sub-co...
- Government sets up 6-member panel to measure backwardness of states
The Centre today set up an expert committee to evolve a composite index to measure backwardness of states.
Special category status: Request from Bihar, Odisha and Rajasthan under considerationThe special category status to various states in accorded by the National Development Council based on consideration of a set of criteria.
Centre likely to grant Bihar 'backward' status soonCentre will shortly change the criteria for evaluating a state's claim to be "backward", meeting the demand of Bihar CM Nitish Kumar for sp...
Congress woos Nitish Kumar by indicating work has started to help BiharThe Centre’s efforts to help Bihar coincides with an unease in JD(U) over its ally BJP’s plans to project Modi as the PM candidate.
Centre working on special package for backward statesOfficial sources said a package is being worked under which criteria for backwardness of a state are being framed.
Union Budget 2013: Nitish Kumar hails Finance Minister for promise to revisit special status criteria"It is the victory of the people of Bihar(granting special status in the budget) and Chidambaram deserves kudos ," Kumar said.
- Haryana to give 10% reservation in government jobs
Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes Minister Geeta Bhukkal today said the Haryana government has issued a notification in this...
- Ranganath Mishra Commission report a lost chance
The National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities , better known as Ranganath Mishra Commission, was given an opportunity to ...
- 'Reservation law usurpation of judicial power'
The anti-quota petitioners contended before the Supreme Court that the legislation providing 27% reservation to OBCs in central educational...