A parliamentary panel urges revising the OBC creamy layer income ceiling, last updated in 2017, to include more eligible families due to in...

Rahul Gandhi has addressed Prime Minister Narendra Modi regarding critical issues. He highlighted the poor state of hostels for Dalit, ST, ...

Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi hailed the 2022-23 Budget and said it advances the opportunity for self-reliant India amid th...

This is the first of the Centre's 'references' to the poll panel amid the model code of conduct that has kicked in with respect to election...

The overall budget for ministry of social justice and empowerment has gone up from ₹8,207.56 crore to ₹10,517.62 crore – a 28% increase. Th...

The issue, pending Cabinet approval for nearly a year now, was recently escalated to the Prime Minister’s Office and discussed in detail in...

In a major welfare outreach, the ministry of social justice and empowerment is working on creating a central database of all meritorious st...

There is a 14% increase in the budget allocation for ministry of social justice and empowerment and a 7.5% increase in that of tribal affai...

Proposal is for class 9 to postgrad students of OBC, SC, Denotified tribe, EBC categories. Centre also proposes to link senior citizens wit...

The move comes in the backdrop of unearthing of corruption in implementation of centrally-sponsored 'post-matric scholarship and freeship' ...

Jayalalithaa said her government had to incur a total expenditure of Rs 1,295.55 crore towards post-matric scholarships in 2015-16.

A total of 2.43 crore students including 1.24 crore girl students benefited from three Central schemes for youngsters from minority communi...

Only 4.5 per cent of the population in the country is educated upto the level of graduate or above while a majority of 32.6 per cent popula...

During 2014-15, Rs 1,129.27 crore was released for the pre-matric scholarship for awarding 74.97 lakh scholarships up to March 2015.

Government has accepted 73 recommendation of Sachar Committee and 72 of these are being implemented by various ministries and department, M...

Government decided to substantially hike the post-matric scholarship amount and other benefits given to students from scheduled tribes and ...

HRD ministry has asked the Centre to make education free for Dalits up to PhD, in a recommendation from Congress veteran Arjun Singh which ...