A Rajput in charge of JD(U), another in charge of RJD, a Brahmin at the helm in Congress. What exactly is brewing in the homeland of Mandal and OBC politics?
Odisha is among the few states which are yet to accord 27% reservation to OBCs because of the 50% cap imposed by the apex court in the Indra Sawhney case.
Opposition on Monday lent its support to the Centre on a constitutional amendment bill allowing states and union territories to make their own Other Backward Classes (OBC) list.
Panchayat polls are due in Odisha. How to ensure caste disaffection doesn’t throw a spanner in the works for BJD? Why, promise 27 per cent tickets to the backward castes…
The Amendment Bill seeks to restore the powers of states to notify backward classes, bypassing a May 2021 Supreme Court ruling that said only the Centre could notify socially and educationally backward classes (SEBCs).
Her remarks come close on the heels of Nitish Kumar seeking an appointment with Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss the tricky issue of caste-based census which the Centre has proposed to hold only for SCs and STs.
The BJD’s move comes barely three days after a delegation of the party MPs met Union Home Minister Amit Shah and sought a legislation to raise quota for OBCs in the state.
Apart from central universities, the Ministry of Education's data showed 89 per cent of the posts sanctioned for OBCs lying vacant in the Indian Institute for Science, Bangalore.
There are now as many as 47 members from disadvantaged communities in the 77-member Council of Ministers.
The senior BJP leader said OBCs are being purposely deprived of the political reservation.
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The SC made the observation while hearing pleas challenging the Bombay HC verdict which upheld the grant of quota to Marathas in admissions and government jobs...
The High Court had accepted the Maharashtra government's argument that the Maratha community was socially and educationally backwards.
Jats and Muslim communities demand inclusion in the Central OBC list
The Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC) Act, 2018 was enacted to grant reservation to people of Maratha community in Maharashtra in jobs and...
Bengal’s unseen but active caste divide springs up on social media
The author writes that 'almost 90 percent of India’s positions – both in public and private sectors, especially those of leadership – are occupied by...
This caste divide in Bengali society is responsible for the rise of the BJP in the state. Since 2012, the RSS has made great inroads by community outreach...
It is the collective responsibility of all of us to ensure an equal society by promoting reservations and affirmative action till we achieve the goal of...
Eleven people have been arrested in connection with the incident which occurred in Bhadwasa village, 42 kms from the Agar Malwa district headquarter, on the...
Reservation in IIM appointments has been a controversial issue for years with the institutes arguing that scientific and technical posts are exempt from the...
BJP President and Home Minister Amit Shah also lauded the prime minister for integrating Jammu and Kashmir with India by abrogating Article 370.
The government's move was apparently aimed at wooing these communities ahead of by-elections to 12 Assembly seats.
The report ‘Who Tells Our Stories Matters: Representation of marginalised caste groups in Indian Newsrooms’ studies the representation of people from...
The Maratha reservation verdict stokes fears of the dilution of affirmative action against the caste system
'The order that they (UP government) have issued now is not appropriate, not in accordance with the Constitution', Social Justice and Empowerment Minister...
