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Madhya Pradesh Assembly passes bill giving OBCs 27 per cent quota

Source: newindianexpress.com BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed an amendment bill raising reservation in government jobs and education for Other Backward Classes (OBC) to 27 per cent from the present 14 per cent. The MP House passed the MP Public Service (Reservation for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes) Amendment Bill

Supreme Court’s rule for quota candidates availing age relaxation contradicts its own view

Sources: theprint.in A bench of two Supreme Court judges held in a recent judgment that “a candidate who has availed of an age relaxation in a selection process as a result of belonging to a reserved category, thereafter, cannot seek to be accommodated in/or migrated to the general category seat.” This means that such reserved category candidates

Maratha community, Reservation, Quota, Devendra Fadnavis, Maharashtra government, Wakilsahab

Source- indianexpress.com Even as the state government is set to table the report of the Maharashtra State Backward Class Commission on Maratha reservation before the state legislature on Monday, the Maratha community seems to be confused about whether to seek reservation in the existing OBC quota or demand a separate 16 per cent reservation. This, despite

Madhya Pradesh: Rally against quota, SC/ST Act change in Bhopal

Source-indianexpress.com Thousands of protesters, mainly upper castes, trooped to Bhopal from other parts of Madhya Pradesh for a ‘Kranti Sabha’ rally on Sunday to express their anger over the Centre’s amendment to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Targeting Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who had asserted two years ago that