Bihar's caste survey report revealed that OBCs (27.13 per cent) and the extremely backward classes sub-group (36 per cent) accounted for a whopping 63 per cent of the state’s total of 13.07 crore, while SCs and STs together were slightly over 21 per cent.
As per the report, tabled by parliamentary affairs minister Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, the state was home to about 2.97 crore families, out of which more than 94 lakhs (34.13 per cent) were poor.
Delhi University news: The waiver includes all components of the fees paid by the students except the examination fee and the hostel fee.
Gujarat Elections 2022: The Centre in January 2019 implemented the 10 per cent reservation for EWS from the general category by amending the Constitution.
EWS reservation: Justice Dinesh Maheshwari and Justice Bela M Trivedi uphold the validity of the Constitution's 103rd Amendment Act 2019, which provides for the 10 per cent EWS reservation amongst the general category.
A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and Surya Kant said, “We will post these matters for final disposal in the month of April. We now have to hear the matter and everything is there in law. Parties concerned shall file their detailed written submission. We have upheld the 27 percent OBC quota and now we will confine ourselves to EWS criteria only”.
Gujarat assembly elections are expected to be held in 2022. In 2017 state election, BJP won 99 of the state's 182 Assembly seats, Congress got 77 seats.
Maharashtra Government has decided to support the community that doesn't fall under any reservation category with Economically Weaker Section (EWS) reservation."Till there's no clarity on Maratha community reservation, state government has decided to support the community that doesn't come under any reservation category, with Economically Weaker Section (EWS) reservation.
The Telangana government has decided to implement 10 percent reservation to the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) in the state, Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao announced on Thursday.
Nearly two years after the Centre announced 10 per cent reservation for the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) in government jobs and educational institutions, the Telangana government on Thursday said it has decided to implement the quota in the state.
The employee federations of the state-run Ordnance Factory Board (OFB), parent organisation of the 41 arms manufacturing units across the country, have sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi's intervention in the matter.
Home Minister Amit Shah will introduce the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Second Amendment) Bill, 2019 in Rajya Sabha tomorrow. The bill aims to implement 10 per cent Economically Weaker Section (EWS) quota in Jammu and Kashmir.
Maharashtra School Education Minister Ashish Shelar Friday told the state Assembly that students belonging to Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC), as well as the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS), had not availed quota meant for them in junior college admissions, resulting in a large number of vacancies.
The Supreme Court Thursday sought responses from the Centre and CBSE on a plea seeking ten per cent reservation for economically weaker sections in Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET), 2019. A vacation bench comprising justices Indira Banerjee and Sanjiv Khanna issued notices to the Centre and the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on the plea and asked them to respond to it by July 1, the next date of hearing.
"For qualifying examinations there cannot be any reservation," the Supreme Court clarified on Monday while hearing a plea seeking 10 per cent quota for the economically weaker section in Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET)-2019.
New Delhi: An organisation of slum dwellers on Tuesday moved the Delhi High Court challenging Delhi Development Authority (DDA)'s new housing scheme EWA (Economically Weaker Section).The plea seeks direction to the government to allot them
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