'Creamy layer' snatching job pie? Data shows a chunk of SC/ST jobs remain unfilled each yearA 2023 parliamentary report reveals that a significant portion of SC/ST job quotas in central government positions remains unfilled annuall...
04 Aug, 2024, 09.27 AM IST
Karnataka govt's job quota bill flawed, says Ex-CM Veerappa MoilyIn an ET interview, Veerappa Moily criticized Siddaramaiah's halted Kannadiga job quota conflicting with Article14. He urged better investm...
20 Jul, 2024, 06.31 AM IST
Sheikh Hasina govt calls in army as Bangladesh job quota crisis deepens, India keeps a close watchAmid protests over quota reforms leading to 32 deaths and 2,500 injuries, the Hasina government deployed the Army. Violence incited by Jama...
19 Jul, 2024, 08.18 AM IST
Karnataka Congress govt puts controversial job quota bill on holdKarnataka government halts job quota bill amid industry criticism. The bill aimed to reserve jobs for Kannadigas in private firms, but face...
17 Jul, 2024, 10.09 PM IST
Karnataka jobs reservation for Kannadigas: India Inc says move 'discriminatory', calls for it to be junkedThe Karnataka cabinet approved a bill mandating 50% reservation for locals in management jobs and 75% in non-management jobs in the private...
17 Jul, 2024, 09.32 PM IST
Why Lalu Prasad Yadav is both right and wrong about Muslim reservationLalu Prasad has intensified the Muslim reservation debate that was triggered by PM Modi’s allegation that Congress aims to slice up the OBC...
11 May, 2024, 10.32 AM IST
Should IAS and IPS children continue to get benefits of reservation, asks SC judge; Punjab govt says they shouldn'tJustice Gavai, a Dalit himself and slated to become CJI in May next year, said, "A person from the SC/ST community, after getting into cent...
07 Feb, 2024, 12.34 PM IST
75% quota in private jobs to residents: SC notice to Centre on Haryana govt's plea challenging HC orderThe Supreme Court has requested a response from the Centre following a plea by the Haryana government challenging the Punjab and Haryana Hi...
05 Feb, 2024, 03.33 PM IST
10% quota's fine, but government cutting jobs tooCentral staff number, as per actuals declared in Union Budget for 2018-19, came down by 75,231 since 2014.
19 Jan, 2019, 06.50 PM IST
Quota unquote: Here is the reality of jobs and education in IndiaA parliamentary question showed, between 2013 & 2015, there has been an 89% fall in direct recruitment in govt jobs
12 Jan, 2019, 07.10 AM IST
Gen, OBC govt employees to protest against SC/ST quota in job promotionOn June 21, Union minister Ramdas Athawale had said that a bill for reserving promotions for SCs, STs and OBCs in government jobs will be t...
29 Jun, 2017, 08.18 PM IST
Explained: Why the Jat community is up in armsThe Jat protestors, who have been demanding reservation in jobs and educational institutions, torched several police and private vehicles i...
20 Feb, 2016, 10.19 AM IST
Government should provide quota for SC/STs in private sector: Sitaram Yechury, CPI(M)Sitaram Yechury said that SC/ST Bill, 2015 be brought to its logical conclusion and reservation be extended to private sector, as the speci...
26 Nov, 2015, 01.17 PM IST
SC quashes Centre's decision to include Jats in OBC quotaIt also said that the inclusion of politically organised class like Jat would adversely impact the welfare of the other backward classes.
18 Mar, 2015, 02.01 AM IST
- RLD not in favour of quota in govt job promotions
Union Minister Ajit Singh today said his party Rashtriya Lok Dal was not in favour of the constitutional amendment bill for reservation in ...
21 Dec, 2012, 04.27 PM IST
SC gives half-nod to quota for 'backward' MuslimsThe Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court will study legality of the law in August.
26 Mar, 2010, 12.24 PM IST
- Govt jobs: OK for quota-based promotions
Reservations for SC/ST for promotion in government jobs is on though the creamy layer will be excluded.
19 Oct, 2006, 11.26 AM IST