Tag: Reservation

Reservation must for benefit of oppressed: Uma Bharti

Union minister Uma Bharti on Tuesday said reservation was necessary and must continue in the country for the benefit of those who remained oppressed for ages. Bharti further said there was no discrimination in the country on the basis of religion but certainly it was there in the name of caste. “Reservation is necessary for the …

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October 31, 2017

Pitfalls of revisiting reservation

While taking advantage of its majority in both Houses of Parliament, the ruling BJP is planning to revisit the existing scheme of OBC reservation through multiple measures. First, the Other Backward Classes Bill will be reintroduced to give constitutional status to the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) under Article 340 in the forthcoming winter …

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September 7, 2017

Union minister Ramdas Athawale favours increase in reservation

Union minister Ramdas Athawale on Thursday favoured a 25 per cent increase in reservation to accommodate a few other castes. Addressing a press conference here, the minister of state for social justice and empowerment said communities such as the Marathas in Maharashtra, the Patels in Gujarat and the Jats in Haryana were demanding reservation. The …

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September 1, 2017

SC order on institutional reservation in AMU and BHU on Wednesday

The Supreme Court is likely to pronounce on Wednesday its order on petitions by Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and other seeking the restoration of 50 per cent institutional preference quota in post graduate medical courses. Both BHU and AMU have moved the top court challenging Allahabad High Court's May 29 order …

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June 6, 2017

We will always work for social reforms

Since 2010, Yashpal Malik has been the face of the Jat agitation for other backward class (OBC) reservation in Haryana. Hailing from an agricultural family in Kharar village of Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district, Malik founded the Akhil Bharatiya Jat Arakshan Sangharsh Samiti (ABJASS) in 2009 to raise issues of the community.Within no time, Malik’s aggressive …

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May 5, 2017

Tamil Nadu doctors on strike; health services affected

Government doctors in Tamil Nadu are boycotting their work demanding a 50 per cent reservation for them in admission to post-graduate medical courses in the state, partially affecting outpatient services in hospitals. Doctors attached to various associations have been agitating since May 2 staging state-wide protests and have not taken up “elective surgeries”. However, the …

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May 5, 2017

Religion and social justice

In a multiple undulating society like ours, accomplishing the objective of social justice as enshrined in the Constitution is a difficult political task. Constitutional Justice to the backward class interrogates the Indian State and society. The Constitution makes the State the trustee to preserve, protect, defend and uplift the backward class within the confines of …

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May 3, 2017

Rajasthan Gurjars to launch stir demanding quota

The Gurjar community in Rajasthan is set to launch a major agitation against the state government for failing to implement 5 per cent Special Backward Class (SBC) quota in educational institutes and government jobs for the community. Gurjar leaders have called for a public meeting at Sikandra on Saturday, nearly 70 kilometers from the state capital Jaipur and the venue has …

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April 21, 2017

BJP trying to end quotas: Mayawati

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Sunday accused the central government of allegedly trying to do away with the reservation system. "The BJP government is trying to remove Dalit quota, it is trying to end reservation," Mayawati told an election rally here in Uttarakhand. She blamed the "wrong policies" of the central government for …

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February 5, 2017

Demand for reservation for Marathas justified: Athawale

Amid growing demand for reservation for Marathas, Union Minister Ramdas Athawale on Tuesday said the demand of the dominant community in Maharashtra was justified and he would strive to get the community its due. In a statement by his office, Athwale, Union Minister of State for Social Justice, assured a delegation of Sambhaji Brigade, an …

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August 16, 2016

Telangana to up quota for Muslims, STs in proportion to population

Telangana to up quota for Muslims, STs in proportion to population

August 12, 2016