Odisha govt forms committee for reservation of govt school students in medical, engineering colleges
3 years, 11 months ago

Odisha govt forms committee for reservation of govt school students in medical, engineering colleges

India Today  

A ‘high power’ committee was constituted by the Odisha government on Thursday to make certain recommendations regarding reservation for students of state-run high schools in engineering and medical courses, according to an official release. On December 28, 2020, the Odisha Cabinet had proposed a reservation for students who passed from government schools for admissions into various medical and engineering colleges. Odisha reservation policy for govt school students As per the policy approved by the Odisha Cabinet, several seats in medical and engineering colleges will be reserved for students from government schools in the state from the upcoming academic session 2021-22. As per the statistics, very few students from government schools end up seeking admissions in medical and engineering colleges after appearing for centralised entrance examinations like NEET and JEE Main and Advanced.

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Fill vacant medical seats through special conselling, convert NRI seats to general: SC to MCC
1 day, 19 hours ago

Fill vacant medical seats through special conselling, convert NRI seats to general: SC to MCC

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court has directed the Medical Counselling Committee to conduct a special round of counselling to fill vacant medical seats for National Eligibility cum Entrance Test undergraduate courses while noting the acute shortage of doctors in India. A bench of Justices BR Gavai and KV Viswanathan further directed that the vacant NRI seats would also be converted into the …

Documents of students who got medical seats under NRI quota to be verified by embassies
3 weeks, 3 days ago

Documents of students who got medical seats under NRI quota to be verified by embassies

The Hindu  

For the first time, the Karnataka Examination Authority has decided to send the details and documents of 320 students who secured postgraduate medical seats under the Non-Resident Indian quota to the respective embassies for cross-verification. This decision comes after KEA discovered irregularities involving 21 students who secured postgraduate medical seats under the management quota in the All India Quota while …

Court Cannot Examine Correctness Of Policy Decision Which Is Supported By Sufficient Material And Complies With Article 14: Patna High Court
1 month, 1 week ago

Court Cannot Examine Correctness Of Policy Decision Which Is Supported By Sufficient Material And Complies With Article 14: Patna High Court

Live Law  

The Patna High Court has reiterated that once it is found that there exists sufficient material supporting a particular policy decision and it falls within the scope of Article 14 of the Constitution, the power of judicial review does not extend to determine the correctness of that policy decision or finding out an alternative. However, once it is found that …

Ensure reservation policy is adhered to in IITs, DMK MP Wilson urges Union Minister
3 months, 1 week ago

Ensure reservation policy is adhered to in IITs, DMK MP Wilson urges Union Minister

The Hindu  

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Rajya Sabha MP P. Wilson on Wednesday urged Union Minister for Education Dharmendra Pradhan to periodically review reservations for marginalised communities in the Indian Institutes of Technology across the country. “As the Chairman of the IIT Council, it is imperative that your good self periodically review reservations for marginalised sections, hold the Directors of respective IITs accountable …

Odisha considers increasing reservations for SC, ST students in technical education
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Odisha considers increasing reservations for SC, ST students in technical education

The Hindu  

The Odisha government is considering increasing reservations for scheduled caste and schedule tribe students during admission into technical education courses in the State. At present, the State provides 20% reservation SC and ST Students in State Government technical colleges in admissions as against their 39.98% of the total population. In response to a query in the State Assembly if the …

Bombay High Court Orders Mandatory Presence Of Medical Facilities In All Schools & Colleges Across Maharashtra
5 months ago

Bombay High Court Orders Mandatory Presence Of Medical Facilities In All Schools & Colleges Across Maharashtra

Live Law  

In a first, the Bombay High Court has ordered all educational institutions in Maharashtra to provide proper first aid and medical facilities for students and employees of the schools and colleges within the college premises, so as to provide immediate possible treatment in cases of emergencies. The bench noted that the State's Higher and Technical Education Department had issued a …

Odisha: Congress demands more quota for SCs, STs in higher education
5 months, 1 week ago

Odisha: Congress demands more quota for SCs, STs in higher education

New Indian Express  

BHUBANESWAR : Former Union minister Srikant Jena and ex-Congress MP Anant Prasad Sethi on Sunday said the government should revise the reservation quota for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes in higher education in Odisha from 2024-25 academic year. In a letter to Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, the Congress leaders said in 2015, the state government had announced that reservation …

Medical Aspirants in a Fix as Uncertainty Lingers over Competent Authority Quota
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Medical Aspirants in a Fix as Uncertainty Lingers over Competent Authority Quota

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: With the NEET results having been declared, students' anticipation of securing admissions to medical colleges in the state is high. As per the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, students of Andhra Pradesh were eligible to apply for 15% seats in the unreserved category in medical colleges in Telangana and vice-versa for TG students. In retaliation, the Andhra Pradesh government …

A.P. students should continue to get special quota in Telangana medical colleges: Public representatives and academicians
7 months ago

A.P. students should continue to get special quota in Telangana medical colleges: Public representatives and academicians

The Hindu  

Hundreds of Andhra Pradesh students will not get 15% quota in Telangana medical colleges and other higher educational institutions from 2025-26 academic year, as the ten-year facility that was provided in the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act-2014 will come to an end in 2024. Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences, which takes up the admission process for all 27 government …

Comprehensive India-specific approach needed for growth of medical education: Parliamentary panel
10 months, 1 week ago

Comprehensive India-specific approach needed for growth of medical education: Parliamentary panel

The Hindu  

Bridging the widely varying quality of medical education across India; enhancing the number of under- and post-graduate medical seats; optimal use of existing infrastructure to expand medical education facilities; chalking out a comprehensive India-specific approach for the creation of seats for specialists; and streamlining the recruitment process to prevent “ghost faculty” in medical colleges — these are among the top …

Assam to reserve 5% seats in engineering, medical colleges for students of government schools
1 year ago

Assam to reserve 5% seats in engineering, medical colleges for students of government schools

The Hindu  

December 02, 2023 06:05 am | Updated 10:19 am IST - GUWAHATI GUWAHATI: The Assam government will reserve 5% of seats in engineering and medical colleges for students who pass out of State-run schools. Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma made this announcement after a Cabinet meeting held in eastern Assam’s Tinsukia on Friday. The decision is believed to be aimed …

5% seat reservation in medical, engineering for Assam government school students
1 year ago

5% seat reservation in medical, engineering for Assam government school students

India Today  

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday announced that the state government has opted to set aside 5 per cent of seats in engineering colleges specifically for students from state-run schools. 5 PERCENT RESERVATION OF SEATS IN BTECH/BE COURSES “We have decided to reserve 5 per cent seats in BTech/BE courses in government engineering colleges for students who have …

Assam government approves reservation of seats in medical colleges for Bhutanese nationals
1 year, 1 month ago

Assam government approves reservation of seats in medical colleges for Bhutanese nationals

India TV News  

The Assam Cabinet today approved the reservation of seats for Bhutanese nationals in medical colleges of the state. On Wednesday, the Assam government decided to reserve five seats in the state's medical colleges for Bhutanese individuals in an effort to improve ties with the neighbouring country. Assam Cabinet Minister, Jayanta Mallabaruah told media yesterday, "At least five seats in the …

Madhya Pradesh: Shivraj Chouhan announces 5% quota in medical colleges for students from govt schools
1 year, 3 months ago

Madhya Pradesh: Shivraj Chouhan announces 5% quota in medical colleges for students from govt schools

Live Mint  

Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Monday announced that his government will give 5% reservation in medical studies to students from government schools from this year. “For the first time in the country, the Madhya Pradesh government has taken a decision to be implemented from this year under which 5 per cent reservation will be given to children …

NEET PG | Students Who Take Admission In All India Quota Can't Vacate Seats After 2nd Round Of AIQ Counselling : Supreme Court
1 year, 4 months ago

NEET PG | Students Who Take Admission In All India Quota Can't Vacate Seats After 2nd Round Of AIQ Counselling : Supreme Court

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Monday reiterated that students who take admission in All India Quota seats for Post Graduate medical courses cannot vacate the seats after the second round of counselling for AIQ seats in National Entrance-cum-Eligibility Test.The Court referred to the order passed in May 2017 in the case Dar-Us-Slam Educational Trust v Medical Council of India. The Supreme …

Quota for AP students in TS medical colleges: HC to adjudicate on August 9
1 year, 4 months ago

Quota for AP students in TS medical colleges: HC to adjudicate on August 9

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The Telangana High Court will on August 9 adjudicate a batch of petitions, which challenged the government’s decision not to provide 15 per cent reservation to students from Andhra Pradesh in the MBBS admissions in colleges that were established after 2014. A division bench of Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice Tadakamalla Vinod Kumar was dealing with the petition …

Puducherry Cabinet recommends 10% reservation for NEET-qualified government school students in medical admission
1 year, 5 months ago

Puducherry Cabinet recommends 10% reservation for NEET-qualified government school students in medical admission

The Hindu  

The Puducherry Cabinet has recommended 10% reservation for NEET-qualified government school students in medical admission from this academic year in the Union Territory. The Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister N. Rangasamy on Monday has decided to provide 10% reservation for government school students in MBBS, BDS and BAMS courses. The implementation of quota system will help 11 NEET-qualified government …

Pvt. college appeals for ‘special free of cost admission reservation policy’ to offer free medical education
1 year, 5 months ago

Pvt. college appeals for ‘special free of cost admission reservation policy’ to offer free medical education

The Hindu  

A private college in Karnataka has appealed to the government for a new ‘special free of cost admission reservation policy,’ under which students will be given free medical education on condition that they work for five years at the same institute after completion of the course. The Sri Madhusudan Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research of Sathya Sai Grama, …

Karnataka won’t help merit students secure 50% seats in private medical colleges at govt fee
1 year, 6 months ago

Karnataka won’t help merit students secure 50% seats in private medical colleges at govt fee

The Hindu  

The directive of the National Medical Commission to fix the fee for 50% of seats in private medical colleges and deemed-to-be-universities on par with government seats is yet to be implemented in Karnataka despite multiple recommendations by the Fee Regulatory Committee for Professional Colleges, headed by Justice Subash Adi. The committee has recommended to the Karnataka government to adopt these …

KCR urges PM Modi to accommodate Ukraine-returned medical students in Indian colleges
2 years, 8 months ago

KCR urges PM Modi to accommodate Ukraine-returned medical students in Indian colleges

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Expressing concern over the future of medical students who returned to India from war-torn Ukraine, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and urged him to increase seats in the country's medical colleges to accommodate these students. "Indian students who were studying in various medical colleges in Ukraine were forced to interrupt …

Uttar Pradesh NEET Counselling 2021 Begin: How to Secure Seat in Medical Colleges
2 years, 11 months ago

Uttar Pradesh NEET Counselling 2021 Begin: How to Secure Seat in Medical Colleges

News 18  

The Directorate of Medical Education and Training, Lucknow, will hold counselling to fill seats in UP-based medical colleges. Students who have cleared NEET and want to take admission to MBBC or BDS programmes in Uttar Pradesh based colleges can register at upneet.gov.in. Students’ names that feature on the UP-NEET merit list 2021 will be eligible to attend UP NEET Counselling …

SC approves 27% OBC quota in NEET
2 years, 11 months ago

SC approves 27% OBC quota in NEET

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the Constitutional validity of 27 per cent reservation for OBCs in All India Quota seats for admission in post-graduate and undergraduate medical courses in government-run medical colleges. Pointing to chapter-II of the information bulletin issued for NEET PG AIQ seats that specifically states that the “reservation applicable to NEET-PG would be notified …

Supreme Court Extends Last Date For Admission To Engineering Courses In The State Of Odisha(OJEE) Till December 31, 2021
3 years ago

Supreme Court Extends Last Date For Admission To Engineering Courses In The State Of Odisha(OJEE) Till December 31, 2021

Live Law  

Taking into account the disability of students in being unable to take the OJEE, the Supreme Court recently extended the last date for admission to engineering courses in the State of Odisha till December 31, 2021.The bench of Justices LN Rao, BR Gavai and BV Nagarathna had extended the last date while it was considering an application filed by Orissa …

Timely Advertise & Fill Senior Level Vacancies In State Medical Colleges Expeditiously: Allahabad High Court To UP Govt
3 years ago

Timely Advertise & Fill Senior Level Vacancies In State Medical Colleges Expeditiously: Allahabad High Court To UP Govt

Live Law  

The Allahabad High Court has directed the Uttar Pradesh Government to see to it that in all the State Medical Colleges of the State, senior-level posts are timely advertised and vacancies are filled expeditiously as it directly affects the teaching of the students.The bench of Justice Alok Mathur issued this order as it noted that there is an acute shortage …

NEET-UG : Supreme Court Dismisses Plea Of Candidate Belonging To Scheduled Caste In Haryana For SC Quota Admission In Maharashtra
3 years ago

NEET-UG : Supreme Court Dismisses Plea Of Candidate Belonging To Scheduled Caste In Haryana For SC Quota Admission In Maharashtra

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the plea of a female NEET UG- 2021 candidate belonging to the Scheduled Caste category in Haryana seeking to be recognised as such under Article 341 r/w Article 366 in Maharashtra. Directions were sought to admit the petitioner under Maharashtra's 85% quota from the reservation of seats for Scheduled Castes if she find place …

Assam Medical Colleges to Have Quota of Bhutan Students
3 years, 1 month ago

Assam Medical Colleges to Have Quota of Bhutan Students

News 18  

The Assam government has reserved two seats for students of Bhutan in the state medical colleges from this academic year to foster ties between the two countries. “The Assam Government has allocated two MBBS seats for #Bhutan from this academic year, to foster the vibrant people-to-people ties between our two countries #MesmerisingAssam #Bhutan,” Kamboj tweeted. An Assam government official had …

Supreme Court issues notice to Centre on plea challenging All India Quota for medical studies
3 years, 3 months ago

Supreme Court issues notice to Centre on plea challenging All India Quota for medical studies

India Today  

The Supreme Court has issued a notice to the central government on a petition challenging the 27% reservation for OBC, and a 10% reservation for EWS candidates in the All India Quota for undergraduate and postgraduate medical and dental courses from the current academic year 2021-22 onwards. The government on July 29 had announced the OBC and EWS medical reservation, …

Schools reopen in Delhi, UP, MP, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka today | Check guidelines
3 years, 3 months ago

Schools reopen in Delhi, UP, MP, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka today | Check guidelines

India TV News  

The schools, colleges, and other educational institutions across several states, including Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and many more will reopen today i.e. While Tamil Nadu will reopen schools only for classes 9-12, Delhi, and Rajasthan will reopen physical classes for 9-12 students along with colleges, universities, and coaching institutes. Schools in Assam will resume physical classes for 10 …

Reservations in All-India Quota of NEET: SC Has Shown the Way by Balancing Merit with Equity
3 years, 4 months ago

Reservations in All-India Quota of NEET: SC Has Shown the Way by Balancing Merit with Equity

News 18  

Last week, Narendra Modi-led NDA government declared 27 per cent reservation for OBCs and 10 per cent reservation for EWS students in the ‘All India Quota’ seats for admission to medical courses. Hence, the court declared that 30 per cent seats in undergraduate courses and 50 per cent seats in postgraduate courses in any state must be open to students …

27% OBC, 10% EWS reservation in All India Quota for medical education
3 years, 4 months ago

27% OBC, 10% EWS reservation in All India Quota for medical education

India Today  

In a landmark decision, the central government has announced a 27% reservation for OBC, and a 10% reservation for EWS candidates in the All India Quota for undergraduate and postgraduate medical/dental courses from the current academic year 2021-22 onwards. 5550 students to benefit This decision on medical education reservation would benefit every year nearly 1500 OBC students in MBBS and …

Madras High Court Seeks State Govt's Response On Plea Challenging 7.5 Percent Reservation Of Seats In Medical Colleges For Government School Students
3 years, 4 months ago

Madras High Court Seeks State Govt's Response On Plea Challenging 7.5 Percent Reservation Of Seats In Medical Colleges For Government School Students

Live Law  

The Madras High Court on Monday sought the State government's response in a batch of petitions challenging the constitutionality of the Tamil Nadu Admission to Undergraduate Courses in Medicine, Dentistry, Indian Medicine and Homeopathy on preferential basis to students of Government Schools Act, 2020. The impugned legislation grants a horizontal reservation of 7.5 per cent seats in medical colleges for …

PM Modi review OBC, EWS reservation issue for medical education, ask ministries to resolve
3 years, 4 months ago

PM Modi review OBC, EWS reservation issue for medical education, ask ministries to resolve

India TV News  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi reviewed the issue of OBC and EWS reservation in the all-India quota of medical education and directed the ministries concerned to resolve it on priority, according to sources. In the review meeting, the PM desired that the issue of OBC reservation in the all-India quota of medical education may be resolved by the ministries concerned on …

Modi Govt Likely to Offer OBC, EWS Quota in Medical Colleges Admissions Soon
3 years, 4 months ago

Modi Govt Likely to Offer OBC, EWS Quota in Medical Colleges Admissions Soon

News 18  

Narendra Modi led central government is expected to offer reservations for students hailing from Other Backward Classes and Economically Weaker Sections categories in the medical colleges. Sources revealed that PM Narendra Modi held a meeting on Monday evening to discuss the long-pending demand of OBC reservations in the medical colleges. A panel set up by the Tamil Nadu government to …

Assam Class 10, 12 Board Exams 2021: Students move SC seeking cancellation of exams
3 years, 6 months ago

Assam Class 10, 12 Board Exams 2021: Students move SC seeking cancellation of exams

India Today  

A group of students has filed a plea in the Supreme Court against the conduction of the Assam Class 10 and Class 12 board exams for this year, in the middle of the current Covid-19 pandemic situation. Plea against Assam Board Exams 2021 After the cancellation of CBSE and ICSE board exams, four students from Assam have moved the intervention …

Bihar CM announces 33% reservation for girls in engineering and medical colleges of Bihar
3 years, 6 months ago

Bihar CM announces 33% reservation for girls in engineering and medical colleges of Bihar

India Today  

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar took a major decision on Wednesday with the announcement of a 33% reservation for girls in engineering and medical colleges of the state. Aim to help students study engineering and medical CM Nitish Kumar said that engineering colleges are being opened in all the districts of the state, and many medical colleges have also been …

Bihar announces 33% reservation for girls in medical, engineering colleges
3 years, 6 months ago

Bihar announces 33% reservation for girls in medical, engineering colleges

India TV News  

In a major move, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has announced that 33% seats in state's medical and engineering colleges will be reserved for female students. Moving forward to improve the quality of education in the state, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that his government is trying to get a bill to set up engineering and medical universities in order …

Odisha colleges and universities reopen on Monday for final-year UG, PG, Diploma students
3 years, 11 months ago

Odisha colleges and universities reopen on Monday for final-year UG, PG, Diploma students

India Today  

Odisha colleges, universities, technical institutions and professional institutions reopened today onwards for the final-year students of undergraduate, postgraduate and diploma programmes for the academic year 2020-21. The higher educational institutions in Odisha reopened after a closure of around nine months with all Covid-19 safety precautions in place. The institutions were reopened after the higher education department and the skill development …

Odisha to introduce quota in engineering, medical colleges for state-run school pass-outs
3 years, 11 months ago

Odisha to introduce quota in engineering, medical colleges for state-run school pass-outs

Hindustan Times  

The Odisha government on Monday decided to make a provision for reservation in engineering and medical colleges for students passing out from state-run schools. “The quota in engineering and medical colleges for students passing out from state-run schools will be introduced from the next academic year,” School and Mass Education Minister S R Dash said. Students passing matriculation examinations from …

Cabinet approves quota for Odisha govt school students in medical, engineering colleges
3 years, 11 months ago

Cabinet approves quota for Odisha govt school students in medical, engineering colleges

India Today  

State cabinet presided by Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday cleared a resolution proposing quota in medical and engineering courses in colleges for students of government-run schools in the state. The resolution was moved in the backdrop of a drop in the number of students from Odisha’s government high schools and colleges in medical and engineering courses with the …

The Hindu Explains | How will Tamil Nadu’s 7.5% reservation in medical admissions help students from state-run schools?
4 years, 1 month ago

The Hindu Explains | How will Tamil Nadu’s 7.5% reservation in medical admissions help students from state-run schools?

The Hindu  

The story so far: On October 30, the Tamil Nadu Governor gave his assent to a Bill that sought to reserve 7.5% seats in undergraduate medical admissions for government-school students who qualified NEET. Since 2017, when NEET was implemented in Tamil Nadu, only 14 students from government schools have managed to get admitted to the MBBS course. In 2018-2019 and …

Supreme Court Rejects Plea For Interim Order For Implementation of 50% OBC Reservation in Medical College Seats in 2020-2021
4 years, 1 month ago

Supreme Court Rejects Plea For Interim Order For Implementation of 50% OBC Reservation in Medical College Seats in 2020-2021

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed pleas filed by State of Tamil Nadu and AIADMK seeking a direction for implementation of 50% quota for Other Backward Classes in the All India Quota for undergraduate, post-graduate medical and dental courses in Tamilnadu for the academic year 2020-2021.A Bench comprising of Justices L. Nageswara Rao, Hemant Gupta and Ajay Rastogi dismissed the …

TN Assembly passes Bill to provide horizontal reservation for government school students in medical admissions
4 years, 3 months ago

TN Assembly passes Bill to provide horizontal reservation for government school students in medical admissions

The Hindu  

The Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed a Bill that provides for 7.5% horizontal reservation on a preferential basis for National Eligibility cum Entrance Test qualified students from government schools in the undergraduate medical admissions in the State. Students, who studied from Class VI to Higher Secondary Course in government schools, including Corporation schools, Municipal schools, Adi Dravidar …

[Breaking] Karnataka HC Stays 25% Domicile Reservation For Karnataka Students In NLSIU
4 years, 3 months ago

[Breaking] Karnataka HC Stays 25% Domicile Reservation For Karnataka Students In NLSIU

Live Law  

The High Court of Karnataka on Tuesday passed an interim order to stay the National Law School of India University Amendment Act 2020 passed by the Karnataka Assembly to grant 25% domicile reservation to Karnataka students in NLSIU, Bengaluru.The court has also stayed the 5 percent concession on the cut-off score in the admission test to students of Karnataka which …

Medical Council Of India Has No Power To Make Any Reservation For In-Service Candidates; States Have: SC Constitution Bench [Read Judgment]
4 years, 3 months ago

Medical Council Of India Has No Power To Make Any Reservation For In-Service Candidates; States Have: SC Constitution Bench [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

The Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court has held that Medical Council of India has no power to make any reservation for in-service candidates in Post Graduate Medical Course in any particular state. It was further observed that Regulation 9 of MCI Regulations, 2000 does not deal with and/or make provisions for reservation and/or affect the legislative competence and authority …

Jammu and Kashmir announces 4% reservation in professional institutions for students from Ladakh
4 years, 4 months ago

Jammu and Kashmir announces 4% reservation in professional institutions for students from Ladakh

India TV News  

Jammu and Kashmir administration on Tuesday announced reservation of 4 percent seats in its engineering, medical colleges for students hailing from Ladakh Union Territory. An official spokesman said, "The decision to this effect was taken at a meeting chaired by Chief Secretary B V R Subrahmanyam here to review status with regard to reservation of seats for students belonging to …

Madras HC Directs The Center To Formulate A Committee To Provide OBC Reservations In State Surrendered Seats In All India Quota For Medical Seats [Read Judgment]
4 years, 4 months ago

Madras HC Directs The Center To Formulate A Committee To Provide OBC Reservations In State Surrendered Seats In All India Quota For Medical Seats [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

The Madras High Court today ruled that there are no constitutional impediments for the Central Government to frame laws to provide reservation to the Other Backward Categories, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the State surrendered seats in the all India quota for medical seats in Tamil Nadu. However it clarified that ".on principle there is no legal or constitutional …

[Breaking] No Territorial Jurisdiction : Delhi HC Refuses To Entertain Plea Against Domicile Reservation in NLSIU
4 years, 5 months ago

[Breaking] No Territorial Jurisdiction : Delhi HC Refuses To Entertain Plea Against Domicile Reservation in NLSIU

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court on Friday refused to entertain the plea challenging the imposition of domicile reservation in National Law School of India University, Bangalore.A Division Bench comprising Justice Hima Kohli and Justice Subramonium Prasad noted that since the impugned law is passed by the State of Karnataka, and the Respondent University is also situated in Karnataka, the court at. …

'Reservation not fundamental right': SC refuses to hear pleas by TN parties demanding 50% quota for OBCs in medical colleges
4 years, 6 months ago

'Reservation not fundamental right': SC refuses to hear pleas by TN parties demanding 50% quota for OBCs in medical colleges

Firstpost  

The matter came up before the apex court as various political parties challenged the Centre’s decision not to grant 50 percent reservation to OBCs as per Tamil Nadu law in medical seats. Reservation is not a fundamental right guaranteed under the Constitution of India, observed the Supreme Court on Thursday while dismissing a clutch of petitions regarding 50 percent reservation …

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