Members of Gujjar community in Rajasthan’s Sawai Madhopur have continued their protest over the issue of reservation which has led to chaos and disturbances in daily schedule of the citizens. The Gujjar memebers have demanded the implementation of the 5 per cent reservation that was promised to them by the Rajasthan government.[Read More…]
Tag: Reservation
Maharashtra govt approves 16% quota in education and job sectors for Marathas
The Maharashtra government on Thursday afternoon approved 16 per cent reservation for the Maratha community in the education and job sectors in the state. The Maratha Reservation Bill was tabled in the state legislative assembly at 1:30 pm today. “We have completed the due procedure for Maratha reservation report and we’re[Read More…]
Jharkhand Minister questions government policy on local reservation
Ranchi: Minister of Water Resources, Drinking water, and Sanitation in the state cabinet Chandra Prakash Chaudhary has written a letter to the Chief Minister Raghubar Das and questioned the faulty appointment policy of locals in the government jobs. Chaudhary has expressed his concerns and requested the Chief Minister to take[Read More…]
Removing 26 castes from backward list becomes a headache for TRS
Telangana Elections 2018: The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) gets lashing from inside and outside party for removing 26 castes from the Backward Caste list after enjoying benefits of caste politics for 30 long years. The TRS announced to pull out 26 castes from the list of BCs list right in[Read More…]
Sushil Modi encourages students for innovation; promises 10% reservation to start-ups
Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi urged IIT students to do new researches in the field of education, health, and agriculture so that they can solve problems of these areas under ‘Solve for Bihar’ and ‘SOLVE FOR INDIA’ scheme. He also announced a reservation of 10 per cent to the[Read More…]
Nitish Kumar bats for reservation; says no one on earth can take this away from SC/ST
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that no one on earth has the power to take away reservation from the scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, and backward class people. This statement has come as a reaction to Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan’s statement where she had questioned if reservations can bring[Read More…]
Will reservation bring welfare, asks Sumitra Mahajan
Ranchi: Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Sunday demanded to know if continuing with reservation in education and jobs endlessly will bring prosperity to the country. “The idea of Ambedkarji was to bring social harmony by introducing reservation for 10 years. But what we do is to extend the reservation[Read More…]
Nitish Kumar government is more brutal than British Raj: BJP MP CP Thakur
Bhartiya Janata Party senior leader and Member of Parliament CP Thakur allege Nitish Kumar government of being more brutal than British Raj. Thakur has launched the attack against the coalition partner in Bihar. He is protesting against the lathi charge by the state police during the recent Upper caste reservation[Read More…]
Supreme Court rules out reservation in promotions for SCs, STs in government jobs
Supreme Court in a landmark decision has ruled out any reservation in promotions of SCs, STs in government jobs on Wednesday. The court clearly refused to review the 2006 order on SC/ST quota in promotions and stated that there is no need to refer the matter to a seven-judge bench.[Read More…]
Only 2 Dalit generations should be given reservation: BJP leader
Senior BJP leader C.P. Thakur Sunday said only two generation of Dalits should be given reservations in jobs and educational institutions, not beyond that. “The son of a Dalit IAS officer should not be given the benefit of reservations in jobs and educational institutions,” Thakur, a former Union Minister, said[Read More…]
Maratha quota row: ‘Where are the Jobs?’ Nitin Gadkari on demands for reservation
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Saturday said that reservation will not guarantee employment as jobs are shrinking, adding that there is a “school of thought” which wants policy-makers to consider the poorest of poor in every community. Gadkari made the statement in Aurangabad, Maharashtra on questioned over ongoing Maratha[Read More…]
Maharashtra Bandh: Maratha protesters call off state-wide shutdown
Maratha Kranti Morcha has decided to end their ongoing protest. Addressing a press conference in Mumbai, protessters said that they wanted Mumbaikars to return their home safely. “We only wanted to prove that we are together. We never wanted protests to get violent,” the groups told the press as they[Read More…]
Government committed to quota in faculty positions: Prakash Javadekar
New Delhi: Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar on Thursday said the Modi government was committed to reservation in the faculty positions of universities and that it does not agree with a court order quashing the 50 per cent reservation. The University Grants Commission (UGC) was forced to issue a 13-point[Read More…]
Bihar Minister demands reservation for poor from upper castes
Patna: Bihar Industry Minister Jai Kumar Singh on Tuesday demanded the formation of a “Swarn Aayog” (Commission for the Upper Castes) by the Centre to provide reservation to the poor among the upper castes in the country. Jai Kumar Singh, who belongs to the Rajput caste, is a ruling Janata Dal-United[Read More…]
Increase quota for upper cast from 49.5 % to 75 %: Ramdas Athawale
Union minister of state for social justice and empowerment, Ramdas Athawale, on Sunday stated that reservations in jobs should increase from 49.5 % to 75 % on economic criteria and that higher castes must also benefit from it. Athawale, who is from the Republican Party of India and had earlier[Read More…]
Mumbai: Lakhs participate in the Maratha protest; traffic slows down
After 57 protest march last year, the Maratha Kranti Morcha has taken out its “biggest” silent protest in Mumbai on Wednesday. The protest demanding reservation in jobs has started from Jijamata Udyan in Byculla and is expected to culminate at Azad Maidan by 5 pm. With more than three lakh[Read More…]
Mumbai to witness the ‘biggest’ silent march on Wednesday
Mumbai is soon to witness the ‘biggest’ silent rally on Wednesday after the first march in Aurangabad by the Maratha Kranti Morcha which was followed by other cities across Maharashtra. According to the organisers of the march, this silent protest is a peaceful way demanding reservation in jobs and educational[Read More…]
SC to hear petition over 85% reservation to students in State Board, CBSE
On Thursday, the Supreme Court will hear a petition over the Tamil Nadu government order which allows 85% reservation to students studied in State Board and also Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) students. This petition also challenges the state government’s reservation to only 15% seats for students outside State[Read More…]
300 TISS students refuse to pay fees in protest
In protest against the authorities, over 300 students from the four campuses of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Guwahati and Tuljapur have come together to declare that they will not pay fees. This move comes as the authorities decided to suspend financial aid to those from[Read More…]
Telangana Muslim reservation bill a ‘trash paper’: BJP
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday called the reservation bill for Muslims in Telangana as a trash paper and said the bill would be quashed at the central level as it has no legal sanctity. The party also added that it would project the ruling TRS party in a bad[Read More…]
Telangana hikes Muslim reservation quota
The Telangana assembly on Sunday has passed a bill to hike reservation in educational institutions and jobs for Muslims and Scheduled Tribes. Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao had moved the Backward Class, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Reservation Bill, 2017 at a special session of the State legislative assembly[Read More…]
UP: Medical education dept refuses claim of Yogi govt abolishing reservations
After the news that UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath has ended the quota based reservation for SC, ST and OBC in medical colleges’ across the state, the authorities at the state medical education department have countered the trending information saying, reservation was never a part of the admission process. “It[Read More…]
Jat agitation: Police beefs up security
The Delhi Police have directed the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) to shut down Metro services to Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, and at 12 stations in the capital in order to maintain security. Trains to Gurgaon, Noida, Faridabad and Ghaziabad will not run from late Sunday evening ahead of the[Read More…]
PG medical courses will have no quota this year in Haryana
Medical colleges in Haryana, as per the state government rules, will have no reservation for students belonging to the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes and backwards classes in admission to the postgraduate courses (MD/MS/PG Diploma and MDS) this year. A proposal in November 2016 by Department of Medical Education and Research (DMER)[Read More…]
