Jat Quota Issue: Jat Group Files Caveat in Supreme Court
8 years, 11 months ago

Jat Quota Issue: Jat Group Files Caveat in Supreme Court

The Quint  

A Bill to provide reservation to Jats and five other communities in government jobs and educational institutions was unanimously passed by the Haryana Assembly on 29 March, ahead of the 3 April deadline set by the community, which had launched a violent quota agitation in February. Meeting the key demand of the community, the measure envisages reservation to Jats and five other castes – Jat Sikhs, Rors, Bishnois, Tyagis and Mulla Jat/Muslim Jats – by constituting a new classification – Block ‘C’ – in the Backward Classes category. It proposed to give 10 percent reservation to Jats and five other castes in government and government-aided educational institutions and Class III and IV government jobs. It also envisaged 6 percent reservation to Jats and five other castes in OBC ‘C’ category in class I and II jobs.

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OPINION| Quota Within Quota: The Secret Weapon!
4 months, 1 week ago

OPINION| Quota Within Quota: The Secret Weapon!

India TV News  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is doing his best to explain to voters of Jharkhand and Maharashtra the exact meaning of his slogan, “Ek Hain, Toh Safe Hain”. The issue came up before the Supreme Court recently, and the apex court in August ruled by a 6:1 majority judgement that sub-classification within the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes was permissible. In …

Karnataka government mulls 4% Muslim quota in government tenders, BJP slams move: Report
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4 months, 1 week ago

Karnataka government mulls 4% Muslim quota in government tenders, BJP slams move: Report

Hindustan Times  

The Karnataka government, led by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, is considering a proposal to introduce 4 per cent reservation for Muslims in government contracts for civil works valued up to ₹1 crore, Deccan Herald reported. According to the report, Karnataka currently provides a reservation of 43 per cent in government contracts: 24 per cent for SC/ST contractors, 4 per cent for …

Haryana's SC Sub-Quota: A Polarizing Divide Within the Dalit Community
5 months ago

Haryana's SC Sub-Quota: A Polarizing Divide Within the Dalit Community

Hindustan Times  

Haryana's decision to implement Scheduled Caste (SC) sub-quotas marks an important turn for Indian politics. The sub-quotas will address inequalities within the broader SC group, with each segment getting half of the 20% quota. This is significant as it is the first state to implement sub-quotas within the SC umbrella since the Supreme Court allowed it. The decision is also …

What Backward classes panel chief said on OBC quota demand for Marathas
7 months, 1 week ago

What Backward classes panel chief said on OBC quota demand for Marathas

India Today  

Maharashtra State Backward Class Commission Chairperson Sunil Shukre on Monday said that those seeking reservation for the Maratha community in the Other Backwards Classes should "study the Constitution". Speaking at Baithak, a conclave organised by India Today's sister channel Mumbai Tak, he said, "Quota or reservation is a policy matter. Shukre's remarks came amid protests by Maratha quota activist Manoj …

In Tamil Nadu, data on quota is a Pandora’s Box
7 months, 1 week ago

In Tamil Nadu, data on quota is a Pandora’s Box

The Hindu  

Politics over reservation in education and public employment is nothing new to Tamil Nadu. The question over the data has been addressed partially through the publication of the State Backward Classes, Most Backward Classes and Minorities Welfare Department’s reply to a query under the RTI on the representation of Vanniyars and the rest within the exclusive 20% quota for MBC-DNCs …

Reservation redistribution
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Reservation redistribution

Hindustan Times  

The gains of reservation — despite its goal of driving equity — have flowed unequally. Relative social privilege and political clout have led to a few groups enjoying almost all the benefits of reservations while others languish in backwardness that is largely unchanged since Independence. To illustrate, the Jatavs in Uttar Pradesh and the Mahars in Maharashtra have long been …

HC issues notice to Maharashtra backward class panel over report on Maratha quota
8 months, 3 weeks ago

HC issues notice to Maharashtra backward class panel over report on Maratha quota

The Hindu  

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday issued a notice to the Maharashtra State Backward Class Commission amid ongoing hearings of petitions challenging the State’s decision to grant 10% reservation to Marathas in education and jobs. The High Court, which started hearing the petitions last week, had on Tuesday noted that the MSBCC was a necessary party in the pleas as …

38 Muslim sub-castes in Uttar Pradesh’s OBC quota, Yogi govt mulling a change
9 months, 3 weeks ago

38 Muslim sub-castes in Uttar Pradesh’s OBC quota, Yogi govt mulling a change

Hindustan Times  

The issue of extending Other Backward Classes reservation to Muslims is currently a hot topic, especially with the Bharatiya Janata Party strongly against it. In Uttar Pradesh, socially and educationally backward Muslim sub-castes started getting the OBC quota benefits when the OBC reservation came into being in the state in 1977. In Uttar Pradesh, a state ruled by the BJP, …

Rajasthan to review reservation granted to Muslims under OBC category
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Rajasthan to review reservation granted to Muslims under OBC category

The Hindu  

The Bharatiya Janata Party government in Rajasthan is set to review the reservation in jobs and education granted to Muslims under the Other Backward Class category. Rajasthan’s Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Avinash Gehlot said here on Saturday that the Congress had given reservation to 14 Muslim groups under the OBC category “as part of its appeasement politics” between 1997 …

NCBC recommends increase in reservation quota for OBCs in West Bengal, Punjab
10 months, 1 week ago

NCBC recommends increase in reservation quota for OBCs in West Bengal, Punjab

The Hindu  

The National Commission for Backward Classes has recommended an increase in the reservation quota for Other Backward Classes in public employment in Punjab and West Bengal. Reservation quota for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes is 22%, 6% and 17% respectively in respect of services and posts under the control of West Bengal in establishments run or aided …

Why and how Muslims were given quotas under OBC reservation in Karnataka
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Why and how Muslims were given quotas under OBC reservation in Karnataka

The Hindu  

May 03, 2024 09:00 am | Updated 10:08 am IST - Bengaluru Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing a poll rally in Rajasthan’s Tonk-Sawai Madhopur Lok Sabha constituency on April 23, accused the Congress of “snatching the reservation of SCs, STs and OBCs and providing it to Muslims through the backdoor”, tying it up with his charge that “Congress would redistribute …

Growing voices against proposed 70% quota in Jammu and Kashmir
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Growing voices against proposed 70% quota in Jammu and Kashmir

The Hindu  

There are growing voices against the Centre’s move to push reservation quota to 70% in Jammu and Kashmir, in the wake of recent announcements to have a separate 10% reservation for Paharis and other tribes and enhancement of OBCs quota to 8%. “The Jammu and Kashmir administration’s decision to increase ST reservation by 10% at the expense of open merit …

Backward Classes Commission notice to WB over inclusion of 87 castes in Central OBC list
1 year, 5 months ago

Backward Classes Commission notice to WB over inclusion of 87 castes in Central OBC list

The Hindu  

The National Commission for Backward Classes has now issued notice to the West Bengal government asking it to furnish all required documentation for the proposal to include 87 castes in the State to the Central List of Other Backward Classes, saying among other things, that the State had so far been unable to show documents on genealogy of Hindu caste …

Gujarat Assembly passes bill to raise OBC quota by 27% in local governing bodies
1 year, 6 months ago

Gujarat Assembly passes bill to raise OBC quota by 27% in local governing bodies

India TV News  

The Gujarat Assembly passed a bill to raise reservation for Other Backward Class communities in local self-government bodies like panchayats, municipalities and civic corporations to 27 per cent from the current 10 per cent. The BJP government on Friday passed the Gujarat Local Authorities Law Bill, 2023, in the Assembly through a majority voice vote after all the 17 Congress …

Existing OBCs strongly oppose OBC status to Marathas
1 year, 6 months ago

Existing OBCs strongly oppose OBC status to Marathas

Hindustan Times  

MUMBAI: Faced with the fresh, aggressive agitation by Marathas across the state, the Maharashtra government finds itself between a rock and a hard place. “The district machinery will verify the claims of the castes by checking family trees and records in educational institutions.” Virendra Pawar, coordinator of the Maratha Kranti Morcha, the umbrella organisation of Maratha outfits, said that the …

Explainer: The legal angle to the Maratha reservation row
1 year, 6 months ago

Explainer: The legal angle to the Maratha reservation row

Hindustan Times  

The issue of reservation for Other Backward Class persons is a hot-button issue around the country. The ordinance: On July 9, 2014, the Maharashtra government brought an ordinance providing for 16% reservation to the Maratha community and 5% reservation to 52 Muslim communities in public employment and education. Staying the ordinance: On November 14, 2014, the Bombay HC stayed the …

Rajasthan announces 6% reservation to most backward castes within OBCs
1 year, 7 months ago

Rajasthan announces 6% reservation to most backward castes within OBCs

Live Mint  

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday informed that the state government is set to allocate a six per cent quota for the Most Backward Castes within the Other Backward Classes. "A survey will be conducted by the OBC commission to identify the most backward castes in the OBC category and the commission will submit the report in a time-bound …

Karnataka Govt. decision scrapping 4% quota to Muslims will not be implemented till May 9: Supreme Court
1 year, 11 months ago

Karnataka Govt. decision scrapping 4% quota to Muslims will not be implemented till May 9: Supreme Court

The Hindu  

April 25, 2023 01:27 pm | Updated April 26, 2023 12:20 am IST - NEW DELHI The Karnataka Government on April 25 won an adjournment again in the Supreme Court during the hearing of a petition challenging the State’s decision to scrap 4% OBC quota for Muslims and divide it between Vokkaliga and Lingayat castes ahead of the Assembly elections. …

Explained | Why and how was the 4% reservation for Muslims under the OBC category scrapped in Karnataka?
1 year, 11 months ago

Explained | Why and how was the 4% reservation for Muslims under the OBC category scrapped in Karnataka?

The Hindu  

The story so far: At the Cabinet meeting in Karnataka on Friday, the BJP government did away with the nearly three-decade-old 4% reservation for Muslims in the Other Backward Classes category and distributed it equally among the Veerashaiva-Lingayats and Vokkaligas, two dominant land-owning communities in the State, at 2% each. The Cabinet decided to exclude Muslims from the OBC category …

Karnataka says 4% quota for Muslims was shifted'
1 year, 11 months ago

Karnataka says 4% quota for Muslims was shifted'

Deccan Chronicle  

NEW DELHI: As the Karnataka government’s move to scrap four per cent reservation for Muslims kicked off a firestorm across the southern state, state government officials claimed that the reservation has “not been scrapped, but only shifted”. It was being claimed that by moving the community to the EWS category, “Muslims will now be in a grouping which has 10 …

Karnataka HC stays 2 new quota categories for Vokkaligas and Lingayats
2 years, 2 months ago

Karnataka HC stays 2 new quota categories for Vokkaligas and Lingayats

Hindustan Times  

The Karnataka high court on Thursday ordered an interim stay on the state government’s decision to create a separate OBC category for Vokkaligas and Lingayats and provide reservations in education and government jobs. A division bench headed by chief justice PB Varale stayed the new categories and asked the government to maintain the status quo in the matter of OBC …

SC agrees to hear appeal on January 4 challenging direction to hold U.P. municipal polls without reservation for OBC
2 years, 2 months ago

SC agrees to hear appeal on January 4 challenging direction to hold U.P. municipal polls without reservation for OBC

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on January 2 agreed to list on January 4 an appeal filed by the Uttar Pradesh government challenging an Allahabad High Court direction to hold local body elections in the State without reservation for Other Backward Classes. The case raises the fundamental question whether quota for political representation in urban self-government bodies can be equated with reservation …

Akhilesh Yadav asks for U.P. Assembly session to discuss OBC quota in urban bodies
2 years, 2 months ago

Akhilesh Yadav asks for U.P. Assembly session to discuss OBC quota in urban bodies

The Hindu  

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday asked the Uttar Pradesh Government to convene a special session of the State Assembly to discuss the issue of Other Backward Classes reservation in urban local bodies after the Allahabad High Court’s decision to quash OBC reservation. Government’s conscience is clear, it must hold a special session of the State Legislature, so that …

OBC reservation in India: History, state-wise quota, legal challenges, tussle for local body polls
2 years, 10 months ago

OBC reservation in India: History, state-wise quota, legal challenges, tussle for local body polls

The Hindu  

The story so far: Last week, the Maharashtra government had a setback when the Supreme Court directed the State to release the schedule for local civic polls across the state within two weeks, upholding its stay on reservations for Other Backward Classes. Local body elections in Maharashtra have been on hold since the apex Court stayed the 27 per cent …

Plea In Bombay High Court Challenges 2% Reservation For Special Backward Classes In Govt Jobs
3 years, 3 months ago

Plea In Bombay High Court Challenges 2% Reservation For Special Backward Classes In Govt Jobs

Live Law  

Youth for Equality, an organisation against caste-based reservation, has approached the Bombay High Court challenging the 2% reservation for Special Backward Classes in public service jobs in Maharashtra. According to the plea, the 2% SCB reservation was over and above the 50% ceiling limit regarding Government and public sector jobs. The petition thus seeks to quash and set aside a …

'What Is Left For General Category?': Petitioners Challenging OBC/EWS Quota In NEET-AIQ Argue; Supreme Court To Hear On October 7
3 years, 6 months ago

'What Is Left For General Category?': Petitioners Challenging OBC/EWS Quota In NEET-AIQ Argue; Supreme Court To Hear On October 7

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Centre to file its counter within 2 weeks in writ petitions challenging Centre's notification of granting 27% reservation for OBC and 10% for EWS in 50% All India Quota seats in admission to medical courses through the NEET exam. Objecting to the time taken by the Centre for filing its Counter, Senior Advocate …

Madhya Pradesh govt directs hiring as per 27% OBC quota
3 years, 6 months ago

Madhya Pradesh govt directs hiring as per 27% OBC quota

Hindustan Times  

The Madhya Pradesh government on Thursday directed the implementation of an enhanced 27% Other Backward Classes quota for recruitments in all departments, except for school education, health, and medical education. “Some petitions have been filed in the court to challenge it but advocate general, who gave a legal opinion in the court on August 25, clearly said that barring three …

OBC Mahasabha Takes to the Streets in Bhopal Demanding 27% Reservation
3 years, 7 months ago

OBC Mahasabha Takes to the Streets in Bhopal Demanding 27% Reservation

News 18  

The OBC Mahasabha, an umbrella organisation of Other Backward Classes in Madhya Pradesh, took to the streets in Bhopal on Wednesday over their 27% reservation demand. The OBC Mahasabha protested over a range of demands, including a caste-based census of OBCs, 27% OBC reservation in National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test, 27% reservation benefits to OBC candidates in MP Public Service Commission, teachers’ …

Madhya Pradesh HC Orders Govt to Make Recruitment With 14% OBC Quota; Next Hearing on August 10
3 years, 8 months ago

Madhya Pradesh HC Orders Govt to Make Recruitment With 14% OBC Quota; Next Hearing on August 10

News 18  

In an important verdict, Madhya Pradesh high court’s principal bench in Jabalpur on Tuesday ordered the state government to make recruitments with 14% OBC quota and keep 13% as ‘reserve’. The HC on this allowed the state government to prepare the merit list with 27% reservation but directed the state government that posting could only be given with 14% OBC …

Maharashtra: BJP launches protests demanding restoration of OBC quota
3 years, 8 months ago

Maharashtra: BJP launches protests demanding restoration of OBC quota

Op India  

The Other Backward Classes reservation has turned into a raging political issue in the state of Maharashtra. The OBC community in Maharashtra is on the brink of losing their political reservations in local bodies across the state after the Supreme Court last month rejected the state government’s review petition concerning reservation to the OBCs. State BJP chief Chandrakant Patil said, …

Can Reservations Given to Historically Oppressed Castes and Tribes Breach the 50% Limit?
3 years, 11 months ago

Can Reservations Given to Historically Oppressed Castes and Tribes Breach the 50% Limit?

News 18  

Can the reservations given to historically oppressed castes and tribes breach the 50 per cent limit? The state of Maharashtra, before the new act, mandated a 52 per cent quota in public services and 50 per cent in educational institutions for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes. The new Maharashtra State Reservation for Socially and Educationally Backward Classes …

Rohini Commission for OBC Sub-categorisation Proposes Division of 27% Quota Into 2, 6, 9 & 10%
4 years, 1 month ago

Rohini Commission for OBC Sub-categorisation Proposes Division of 27% Quota Into 2, 6, 9 & 10%

News 18  

In 2017, the Narendra Modi government constituted the Justice Rohini Commission to examine the sub-categorisation of the Other Backward Classes to examine the equitable redistribution of the 27% quota for the Other Backward Castes, which will now reportedly begin consultations with the states on a four-category formula. According to the reply in Lok Sabha, the Commission was set up in …

Jats, Muslims Renew Quota Demand Amid Gurjar Agitation in Rajasthan
4 years, 4 months ago

Jats, Muslims Renew Quota Demand Amid Gurjar Agitation in Rajasthan

News 18  

Groups from the Jat and Muslim communities in Rajasthan have renewed their demand for reservations, amid ongoing agitations in the state by Gurjars for quota in government jobs and educational institutions. Leaders from the Jat community in Bharatpur and Dholpur districts have decided to hold ‘mahapanchayats’ at different places to discuss the course of action to get reservations in government …

Jats can apply for general posts as Haryana makes a category switch
5 years, 9 months ago

Jats can apply for general posts as Haryana makes a category switch

Hindustan Times  

Eager to step up recruitments before the bell rings in for the assembly polls in the state, the BJP government in Haryana on Wednesday ordered that posts reserved for Jats and five other castes, but kept in abeyance on the orders of the high court, would now be considered as general category posts. The state government had in 2016 enacted …

Maratha reservation violates Constitution, petitioners tell Bombay High Court
6 years, 1 month ago

Maratha reservation violates Constitution, petitioners tell Bombay High Court

The Hindu  

The 16% reservation in education and jobs for Marathas in the State violates the Constitution, and the Socially and Economically Backward Class nomenclature adopted by the government refers to a ‘class’ and not a ‘caste’, petitioners opposing the reservation told the Bombay High Court on Thursday. On the second consecutive day of the hearing by a division bench of Justices …

10 per cent quota for economically weaker Upper castes: Things you should know about the Bill
6 years, 2 months ago

10 per cent quota for economically weaker Upper castes: Things you should know about the Bill

India TV News  

10 per cent quota for economically weaker Upper castes: Things you should know about the Bill The bill, which the government said was "historic" and in the country's interest, was tabled on Wednesday in Rajya Sabha where proceedings had already been extended by a day. Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed a constitutional amendment bill to provide 10 per cent reservation …

Govt approves 10% quota for upper castes: Forget the politics of it, income-based reservation is the way ahead
6 years, 2 months ago

Govt approves 10% quota for upper castes: Forget the politics of it, income-based reservation is the way ahead

Firstpost  

Every policy announcement by the government just months ahead of a major election will be seen through the prism of politics. Hence, the easy explanation to Narendra Modi government’s decision to offer reservation in jobs and education to economically weaker upper castes is that it is a smart political tactic by BJP to allay the concerns of upper castes and …

Quota within quota: UP govt planning to rejig OBC reservation on basis of ‘population, social status’ of different castes
6 years, 3 months ago

Quota within quota: UP govt planning to rejig OBC reservation on basis of ‘population, social status’ of different castes

India TV News  

Preparations are underway in Uttar Pradesh to rejig OBC reservation on the basis of the population and social status of different castes. The committee, in its report, has recommended that the 27 percent OBC reservation should be divided in three parts. The committee calls for 7 per cent reservation for backward castes, 11 per cent reservation for most backward castes …

Rajasthan govt to issue circular mandating 1% quota to Gujjars, four other MBC communities today
6 years, 8 months ago

Rajasthan govt to issue circular mandating 1% quota to Gujjars, four other MBC communities today

Firstpost  

The Vasundhara Raje-led government in Rajasthan will release a circular mandating one percent reservation to five MBC category communities by 5pm on Monday. The Vasundhara Raje-led BJP government in Rajasthan gave an assurance to Gujjar leaders on Sunday that it would release a circular mandating one percent reservation to five communities under the most backward classes category by 5 pm …

Setback for Gujjar quota stir, 80 villages to boycott
6 years, 10 months ago

Setback for Gujjar quota stir, 80 villages to boycott

Hindustan Times  

The move to revive an agitation by Gujjars to press for their demand of five per cent reservation from within OBC quota suffered a setback Thursday with a large section of the community deciding to boycott the stir. Gujjar community leader Colonel Kirori Singh Bainsla had last week given the call to stage a massive protest starting from May 15 …

Punjab and Haryana HC upholds constitutional validity of jat quota.
7 years, 6 months ago

Punjab and Haryana HC upholds constitutional validity of jat quota.

Op India  

The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday upheld the Constitutional validity of the Haryana Backward Classes Act 2016, providing reservation to six communities including Jat under newly created BC category. … or commission will collect data on basis of which percentage to which extent reservation is to be granted to be determined: AAG Haryana — ANI September 1, 2017 …

HC upholds Haryana’s Jat quota law, stays implementation till March 31, 2018
7 years, 6 months ago

HC upholds Haryana’s Jat quota law, stays implementation till March 31, 2018

Hindustan Times  

The Punjab and Haryana high court on Friday upheld a Haryana law ensuring 10% reservation for Jats and five other communities but stayed its implementation till a commission finalises the quantum. “The high court said the extent of reservation will be determined by the State Backward Classes Commission on the basis of data submitted either by the state government or …

Rebel BJP MLA warns that Rajasthan HC will strike down bill granting 5% quota to Gujjars
7 years, 7 months ago

Rebel BJP MLA warns that Rajasthan HC will strike down bill granting 5% quota to Gujjars

Firstpost  

Ghanshyam Tiwari said that if the proposed bill for reservation quota for Gujjars is challenged, all castes under OBC would suffer in Rajasthan Jaipur: Rebel BJP MLA in Rajasthan Ghanshyam Tiwari on Saturday opposed the Vasundhara Raje government’s decision to raise OBC reservation from 21 to 26 percent for granting five percent reservation to Gujjars and four other castes, saying …

Rajasthan govt to raise OBC quota, mulling 5% reservation to Gujjars
7 years, 7 months ago

Rajasthan govt to raise OBC quota, mulling 5% reservation to Gujjars

Live Mint  

Jaipur: The Rajasthan government will raise the other backward class quota from 21% to 26% for granting 5% reservation to Gujjars and other castes. A division will be created within the revised OBC quota for providing five per cent reservation to Gujjars and other communities,” social justice minister Arun Chaturvedi told PTI on Friday. “A bill will be introduced during …

Jat agitation raises spectre of last year’s violence
8 years, 1 month ago

Jat agitation raises spectre of last year’s violence

Live Mint  

Chandigarh: Haryana is on the edge as the ongoing Jat agitation seeking reservation in education and government jobs has once again raised the spectre of last year’s violence that killed 30 people. The images of mobs setting houses, schools, eateries and other places on fire during last year’s quota agitation are still fresh in public memory. The Manohar Lal Khattar …

Haryana: Jat agitation raises spectre of last year's violence
8 years, 1 month ago

Haryana: Jat agitation raises spectre of last year's violence

Deccan Chronicle  

Chandigarh: Haryana is on the edge as the ongoing Jat agitation seeking reservation in education and government jobs, has once again raised the spectre of last year's violence that killed 30 people. Despite the government assuring the Jats that it will do whatever possible within the ambit of the law and the agitation leader promising that the stir will be …

Jat quota agitation: Protesters lay siege to NH-71A, cops divert traffic
8 years, 1 month ago

Jat quota agitation: Protesters lay siege to NH-71A, cops divert traffic

Hindustan Times  

As the strength of protesters increased, those standing on the roads started stopping the traffic from one side. However, they came back on the requests of Jat committee members, who asked the police to divert traffic to keep the situation under control. The agitation of the Jat community for reservation and roll back of cases registered during last year’s quota …

Rajasthan HC Quashes Reservation To Gujjars, Four Other Castes [Read Judgment]
8 years, 3 months ago

Rajasthan HC Quashes Reservation To Gujjars, Four Other Castes [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

Reservation should not be provided to achieve political goals as it results in caste based agitation to bargain with the government,said the BenchThe Rajasthan High Court has quashed a notification dated 16th October, 2015, issued by the state government and Rajasthan Special Backward Classes Act, 2015, which provided 5% reservation to Gujjars and four other castes under the Special Backwards …

Haryana Police's appeal to Jat protesters: Maintain peace, end quota stir
8 years, 9 months ago

Haryana Police's appeal to Jat protesters: Maintain peace, end quota stir

Firstpost  

The ADG said efforts were being made to convince Jat agitators that their sit-ins “will cause inconvenience to the public and lead to confrontations”. Chandigarh: Haryana Police on Thursday appealed to Jat protesters to end their agitation, saying it will only cause inconvenience to the public and lead to confrontations. Additional Director General of Police, Law and Order, Muhammad Akil …

Jat quota stir sees lukewarm response amid tight security
8 years, 9 months ago

Jat quota stir sees lukewarm response amid tight security

Deccan Chronicle  

Chandigarh: Three months after their violent agitation left 30 people dead, Jat leaders in Haryana on Sunday renewed their quota stir, drawing lukewarm response amid tight security by the BJP government which had drawn severe flak over its handling of the protest last time. All India Jat Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti, which gave the call for the protest, said they held …

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