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4 months, 1 week ago

Call for sub-classification: Data shows uneven development within SCs and STs

A common critique of the group-based approach to affirmative action policies is that it treats the potential beneficiary group as a homogenous class. This is even though India’s population census collects and duly publishes data on socio-economic indicators for individual sub-groups within SCs and STs. Here, we highlight socio-economic differentials within SCs/STs based on data from the 2011 population census. …

Data States State Group Tribes Shows Uneven Scs Sts

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 …

Higher Education Congress Scs Sts

1 year, 7 months ago

Consider MLAs from among Lingayat, SCs, STs, Muslims for Deputy Chief Minister post, urges Jagatika Lingayat Mahasabha

The Hindu

Taking exception to having a single Deputy Chief Minister in the new Congress government, Jagatika Lingayat Mahasabha has said that the Congress should consider Lingayats, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and Muslim leaders for the Deputy Chief Minister’s post as these communities too have supported it in a big way in the Assembly elections. Addressing presspersons in Hubballi along with …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Can't lay down new yardstick: SC on reservation in promotion to SCs, STs in govt jobs

India Today

The Supreme Court has refused to dilute conditions for reservations in the promotion of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in government jobs, adding that it cannot lay down a new yardstick. A three-judge bench headed by Justice Nageswara Rao said states are obligated to collect data on the inadequacy of representation of SCs/STs. The Supreme Court said state governments are …

Scs Sts New Yardstick

3 years, 3 months ago

Not going to reopen cases on grant of reservation to SCs and STs, states to decide on implementation: Supreme Court

Firstpost

Taking up pleas pertaining to alleged hurdles in granting reservation in promotions to SCs and STs, a three-judge bench directed the Advocate on Records of states to identify and flag unique issues New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday said it would not reopen its decision on granting reservation in promotions to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes as it was for …

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3 years, 10 months ago

Higher studies and the marginalised | Poor representation of SCs, STs in Ph.D. programmes at IIT Madras

The Hindu

Students from the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communities have significantly poor representation and acceptance rate in Ph.D programmes at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, analysis of data obtained through the Right to Information Act revealed. Moreover, the data showed a significant difference in the acceptance rate, which refers to the number of students admitted for every 100 applicants. …

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3 years, 10 months ago

Crimes Against SCs and STs Increased in 2019: G Kishan Reddy Informs Rajya Sabha

News 18

The government on Wednesday told Rajya Sabha that crimes against members of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the country increased by 7.3 per cent and 26.5 per cent respectively in 2019. Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy, however, said police and public order are state subjects under the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution and the responsibilities …

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4 years, 3 months ago

Over 6,200 Teaching Posts Vacant in Central Universities, No Plan to Absorb Ad-hoc, Guest Faculty: Govt

News 18

The central government on Monday said 6,210 teaching posts are lying vacant in all Central Universities and 12,437 sanctioned non-teaching posts are lying vacant as on date. Education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’, while responding to a question in the Lok Sabha on vacancies in Central Universities, said the number of vacant teaching positions for OBCs has risen to 300 for …

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