New Delhi: Parliament on Wednesday passed a bill which will give higher education institutions three more years to fill up the 27 per cent seats reserved for other backward classes (OBCs). The Lok Sabha passed the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Amendment Bill, 2012 on Wednesday after the Rajya Sabha passed it April 28. Besides 27 percent quota for OBCs, the national policy provides for reservation of 15 per...
08:59 PM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: The capital is set to receive a residential school for students belonging to the Scheduled Castes (SC), the Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Other Backward Castes (OBC), the Delhi government announced on Monday. "The cabinet has decided to set up a residential school for the SC, ST, OBC and Muslim students in order to provide them adequate opportunities to excel in studies," Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said in...
10:10 PM, May 14, 2012
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday described as "afflictive for backward classes" the Centre's decision of allotting 4.5 per cent sub quota for minorities within the existing 27 per cent OBC reservation. "The Centre's decision of snatching four per cent reservation benefits from the 27 per cent quota of OBC is afflictive for socially and educationally backward class people," Modi said while speaking at an event of Raval...
12:11 AM, Apr 22, 2012
New Delhi: For the last few months, reservation for minority communities, particularly Muslims, is a subject of fierce political debate in India. The approval of 4.5 percent sub-quota in government jobs and educational institutions for minorities was presumably to improve their economic and educational backwardness. However, as the data on the enrolment of Muslims in elementary schools shows, reservation in jobs and in higher educational institutions cannot be the only...
02:54 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Jeetu, a Jat leader, said on Sunday that first, a funeral ceremony will be organised for one of the men who was killed during the agitation, and then a core group meet will be held to decide on future strategy. ...
08:53 AM, Mar 11, 2012
Hisar: The Jat stir was called off on Sunday after the protesters reached a compromise with the Haryana government late on Saturday night, with the latter assuring the release of its leaders arrested during the three-week agitation in Hisar over their demand for reservation in government jobs under the OBC quota. The compromise was reached following marathon talks late on Saturday night between the two sides. Dharamveer, along with Chief...
08:18 AM, Mar 11, 2012
Hisar: One person was killed and several others were injured as members belonging to the Jat community clashed with police near Ramayan village in Hisar on Tuesday. The incident took place when members of the community were protesting against police for detaining top Jat leaders and rounding up agitators squatting near the railway track at Ramayan village late on Monday night. Hisar District Commissioner has called in the Army to...
09:34 AM, Mar 07, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi government on Monday increased reservation for OBCs in higher educational institutions to 27 per cent from current 21 per cent from academic year 2012-13 but also decided to enhance the total number of seats by 12 per cent so that general category students do not suffer. The decision to comply with central law of reserving 27 per cent seats for OBCs is seen as an effort by...
07:19 PM, Feb 27, 2012
Farukkhabad: Sticking to his stand on minorities, Congress leader Salman Khurshid has said he would ensure the rights of backward Muslims even if the Election Commission "hangs" him. Addressing an election rally in Khatakpur locality last night, the Law Minister said that EC had censured him, but even if the "Commission hangs him or does anything else, he would ensure that people of Pasmanda community get their rights". "Can't I...
06:24 PM, Feb 11, 2012
New Delhi: At a time when Congress is making a serious bid to rope in people from the backward Muslim community in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, Law Minister Salman Khurshid has made a strong pitch for sub-categorisation of the Other Backward Classes. "Government is within its legitimate rights to make sub-categorisation among the OBCs, which would lead to more equitable distribution of benefits of reservation among the castes/communities included in the...
01:46 PM, Feb 05, 2012
The Congress is making attempts to project Sam Pitroda as the modern OBC face in Uttar Pradesh. ...
10:39 PM, Feb 01, 2012
New Delhi: Nitish Kumar's Bihar formula of social engineering seems to have caught up the Congress' imagination in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, where Rahul Gandhi is leading the campaign to revive fortunes of the party. The party is not only promising sub-quota for Most Backward Classes (MBC) in government jobs, educational institutions and Panchayats in UP but also special focus on "Ati-Dalits" (extremely deprived) and exploring a sub-quota for them. Sources...
10:08 PM, Jan 27, 2012
Patna: The Centre should make separate provision for Most Backward Castes under 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Castes if it is "really serious" about the betterment of MBCs, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said on Tuesday. Kumar, who was speaking at a function to observe the 88th birth anniversary of late Bihar Chief Minister Karpuri Thakur, opposed four per cent reservation for backward Muslims under 27 per cent...
08:10 PM, Jan 24, 2012
New Delhi: In a significant policy change, the government plans to reserve 27 per cent of new petrol pumps and LPG agencies for Other Backward Classes (OBCs). Presently, 25 per cent of the sites for new petrol pumps are reserved for Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) persons. "We are in the process of formulating new guidelines for setting up of retail outlets and LPG distributorships. The new guidelines...
07:09 PM, Jan 20, 2012
Lucknow: Protesting the UPA government's proposal of Muslim reservation within the 27 per cent OBC quota, Uttar Pradesh BJP on Saturday said it will hold statewide demonstrations against it on December 27, the day when the Bill would be tabled in Parliament. "The move to provide reservation to minorities is divisive and not in the interest of the country. BJP will protest the move across the country and in the...
03:38 PM, Dec 24, 2011
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