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Creamy layer in OBC quota cannot be decided on parents income alone: Supre
Updated : 1 day, 5 hours ago IST
A bench of Justices R Mahadevan and Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha delivered the ruling while dismissing civil appeals filed by the Central government - Ministry of Personnel and Training (MoPT) challenging judgments which had granted relief to certain OBC candidates in the Civil Services Ex
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Dharmendra Pradhan urges Centre to include Odisha's SEBC communities in Ce
Updated : 2 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Pradhan underscored the drawbacks of excluding Odisha's substantial SEBC population, including unequal access to national-level reservation benefits and welfare schemes.
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Congress corners BJP over delay in implementation of 27 per cent OBC reser
Updated : 8 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Addressing a press conference at the AICC headquarters here, senior party leaders, including former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, Madhya Pradesh Congress in-charge Harish Chaudhary, MP PCC president Jitu Patwari and AICC OBC Department Chairman Anil JaiHind alleged that the BJP
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Karnataka government begins statewide caste census for Scheduled Castes (S
Updated : 10 months, 1 week ago IST
The Karnataka government on Monday launched a comprehensive caste census targeting Scheduled Castes (SCs) to gather empirical data on sub-caste demographics. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, addressing a press conference, said the exercise aims to ensure equitable distribution of reservation
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Akhilesh Yadav reaffirms support for Caste Census, says 'reservation not b
Updated : 11 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday reaffirmed his support for a caste census, arguing that backward and Dalit communities should receive reservation benefits.
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SC rules religious conversion for quota benefits without actual belief imp
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
The Supreme Court has held that religious conversion undertaken solely to access reservation benefits without genuine belief in the adopted religion undermines the fundamental social objectives of the reservation policy.
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Maharashtra government to take action against non-Hindu students who avail
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
According to an official release, a committee formed for this investigation reported that, among 13,858 students from Scheduled Tribes, 257 students had registered religions other than Hinduism.
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Karnataka polls: People will teach a lesson to Congress, says CM Bommai
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Congress leaders say that those who avail reservation benefits are beggars, but are SC, ST, OBC, and Lingayats beggars? asked Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai adding that people will teach a lesson to the Congress Party.
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BJP does not want common people to get reservation benefits: Chhattisgarh
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
While addressing a public gathering at Patel Samaj Maha sammelan in the Kankar district he said, "These days BJP are busy in selling airports and ports. Public equipment is being sold out. All government factories are being phased out. There will be no place left for you people to get jobs.
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J-K govt redraws social caste list, 15 more classes get reservation benefi
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], October 22 (ANI): The Jammu and Kashmir Government on Saturday issued an order to redraw the social caste list expanding it by adding 15 new classes under the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation Act, 2004.
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VHP leader accuses YSRC party government in Andhra of 'supporting' convers
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh) [India], March 24 (ANI): Vishwa Hindu Parishad general secretary Milind Parande has accused the YS Jagan Mohan Reddy government of supporting "religious conversions" in the state and said that the reservation benefits should be denied to people who change their re
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Tribals converting to another religion must not be given reservation: VHP'
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 19 (ANI): Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) Central Working President Alok Kumar on Saturday stated that those from the scheduled tribes embracing another religion should not be given the reservation benefits after converting.
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