Articles for Reservation Benefits

OPINION| Quota Within Quota: The Secret Weapon!
1 month, 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 …

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Thrust on educations helped Malas pip Madigas in getting quota benefits
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Thrust on educations helped Malas pip Madigas in getting quota benefits

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Although madigas account for a major share among the SC population’s 61 castes, they failed to gain reservation benefits to proportionate levels. Madigas constitute more than half of the SC population, whereas the other major chunk of Malas is availing most reservation benefits. Talking to Deccan Chronicle, Satavahana University Professor in sociology Prof. Surepally Sujatha said that almost all …

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State to boost Mumbai airport-area development with TDR benefits
5 months, 1 week ago

State to boost Mumbai airport-area development with TDR benefits

Hindustan Times  

Mumbai: Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has announced plans to extend additional Transfer of Development Rights benefits to builders for the redevelopment of buildings in the funnel zone of Mumbai's international airport. Shinde has announced plans to extend additional Transfer of Development Rights benefits to builders for the redevelopment of buildings in the funnel zone of Mumbai's international airport. Addressing the …

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'Should children of IAS-IPS officers continue to get reservation benefits?' asks Justice BR Gavai of Supreme Court
10 months, 2 weeks ago

'Should children of IAS-IPS officers continue to get reservation benefits?' asks Justice BR Gavai of Supreme Court

Op India  

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court stated that people in the backward castes who were eligible for reservation and have benefited from it should move out from the reserved category to allow others who remained backward to benefit from affirmative action. The Punjab Govt has filed a plea in the Supreme Court challenging a High Court order that cancelled priority reservation …

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Maratha quota activist Jarange ends fast; gives govt two months to resolve issue
1 year, 1 month ago

Maratha quota activist Jarange ends fast; gives govt two months to resolve issue

Hindustan Times  

Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange on Thursday ended his nine-day-old indefinite fast for Maratha quota, but warned of a bigger agitation if no action was taken in two months on giving reservation benefits to the community. A delegation of retired high court judges Sunil Shukre, M G Gaikwad and some officials also met Jarange, who reiterated his demand for reservation …

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No quota for converts, say outfits at conclave of RSS media wing
1 year, 9 months ago

No quota for converts, say outfits at conclave of RSS media wing

The Hindu  

Vishwa Samvad Kendra, the media wing of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, on the conclusion of its two-day conclave on ‘Conversion and Reservation’ on Sunday said the meet unanimously resolved that reservation should not be provided to converts. During the concluding session, former judge of Telangana High Court, Justice B. Shiva Shankar Rao, said that conversion means “leaving one faith completely and …

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J. Ranganath Misra Commission report to allow Dalit Christians avail SC quota benefits written “within four corners of a room”, Centre to apex court
2 years ago

J. Ranganath Misra Commission report to allow Dalit Christians avail SC quota benefits written “within four corners of a room”, Centre to apex court

The Hindu  

The Centre in the Supreme Court on December 7 declared that the 2007 report of the Justice Ranganath Misra Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities, which recommended that Dalits who converted to Islam and Christianity to escape caste oppression in the Hindu religion should be permitted to avail of Scheduled Caste reservation benefits in government jobs and educational institutions, was …

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Amit Shah in J&K: PM Modi Gave Employment to Youths Who Earlier Held Stones in their Hands, Says Shah
2 years, 2 months ago

Amit Shah in J&K: PM Modi Gave Employment to Youths Who Earlier Held Stones in their Hands, Says Shah

News 18  

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday announced that the Gujjar, Bakerwal and Pahari communities in Jammu and Kashmir will get reservation benefits in accordance with the recommendations of the Justice Sharma Commission which examined the issue of quota. Shah on Tuesday visited the famous Mata Vaishno Devi shrine atop Trikuta hills in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district on Maha …

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Revisiting social justice under the Dravidian model
2 years, 6 months ago

Revisiting social justice under the Dravidian model

The Hindu  

Dravidian politics in Tamil Nadu has played a significant role in democratising the public space for wider participation. Even though the Sattanathan commission had recommended economic criteria and taking out certain castes out of reservation benefits, due to political and electoral reasons, the government increased the quota for Other Backward Classes from 25% to 31% and for Scheduled Castes /Scheduled …

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Milestone in social justice: Supreme Court verdict upholds OBC reservation in all-India medical seats quota
2 years, 10 months ago

Milestone in social justice: Supreme Court verdict upholds OBC reservation in all-India medical seats quota

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court of India delivered a historic judgment on January 20, 2022, in Neil Aurelio & Ors vs Union of India and Ors, upholding the constitutional validity of 27 per cent reservation for the Other Backward Classes in the All India Quota for undergraduate and postgraduate medical and dental courses. Every political party that assumed power in Tamil Nadu …

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