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INDIA bloc wants to steal reservation of backward classes: Amit Shah in Bihar

Shah also hit out at the Congress party and Mamata Banerjee for their approach to reservations, alleging that they sought to dilute the benefits meant for backward castes

21.22% Maratha population in Maharashtra below poverty line: Maratha quota report

Additionally, the report indicates that 94% of farmer suicides reported in the state are from the Maratha community, and 84% of the community falls under the non-creamy layer category

JSSC Recruitment 2023: Register for Constable competitive exam from Jan 15

Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission invites applications for Constable Competitive Examination 2023.

BSSTET 2023 registration process begins at bsebstet.com, here's direct link

Registration for the Bihar Special School Teacher Eligibility Test (BSSTET 2023) begins.

Bihar caste survey says 63% people from backward, extremely backward classes

Bihar Caste Survey News: The Bihar government released the caste-based survey report. The extremely backward classes and the backward classes form the OBC.

TG writes to CM for mentioning them as ‘caste’, instead of gender for caste survey

Reshma Prasad, founder secretary of Dostana Safar, which espouses the concerns of members from the third gender community, in her letter to the CM, requested him to issue orders to mention TG as a gender; remove its reference as a caste, and to allow them to specify their caste at birth, along with their TG identity, during the survey.

The Mandal moment

It empowered. But it also opened a Pandora’s box

It is time to review India’s reservations architecture | HT editorial

Dalits and tribals must continue to get representation. But the system is broken

Will be forced to take different step if BJP ignores me: Eknath Khadse

Khadse’s statement comes amid speculations that he is in touch with Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leaders. Khadse, however, has refused to comment on the matter.

OBC groom forced off horse, wedding procession attacked by upper caste men in Madhya Pradesh

Agar Malwa’s additional superintendent of police, Pradeep Patel, said they have registered a case against 12 people for rioting, confining persons, damaging property and attacking people. They have arrested four people out of the 12.

Punjab chief secretary to probe reduction of teachers’ salaries

The commission has given 15 days to the chief secretary to collect data and submit the action report.

Education to assets: The profile of Haryana House

While the profiles of the elected candidates is not very different from those elected in the 2014 assembly elections, we observed a few changes, particularly with respect to age and experience of the elected MLAs.

Committee set up to revisit criteria for creamy layer submits report

Income ceiling is the threshold over which OBC candidates would be barred from caste-based reservation in government jobs and admission to government- funded educational institutions.

Four reasons why Nitish Kumar is taunting BJP in Jharkhand

Nitish virtually took digs at the BJP, which has ruled the state for maximum period, and said the state carved out of undivided Bihar has not progressed the way it was expected to. He taunted the BJP government saying people from Bihar, where prohibition is in force, come to Jharkhand for liquor.

Census 2021: Count OBCs as a separate category | Analysis

It will provide information about their numbers, economic status, and could be the basis for a 3rd OBC commission

Madhya Pradesh assembly raises OBC reservation in govt jobs to 27%

Madhya Pradesh, till today, had quota in government jobs capped at 50% -- 14% for Other Backward Classes (OBCs), 16% for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and 20% for Scheduled Tribes (STs)—in line with Supreme Court’s 1992 guidelines.

Debate over Uttar Pradesh move to add 17 OBC castes in SC list

The ministry, which is the nodal ministry for issues related to SCs, Scheduled Tribes (STs) and OBCs, is yet to formally take up the issue with the state’s Yogi Adityanath government.

‘B team’ barb: Prakash Ambedkar slams Congress

In the recent Lok Sabha polls, the presence of VBA candidates led to defeat of the Congress-NCP in nine seats, as the anti-BJP votes got split between them.

The failure of the BSP-SP alliance is not about vote transfers

It’s not their inability to transfer votes that resulted in their poor performance in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections; the two, in fact, did manage to transfer their votes to each other though the degree varied. The reasons for the alliance’s dismal performance lie somewhere else

Panel may recommend splitting 27% OBC quota into three bands

The next census, in 2021, is slated to count OBCs for the first time in 90 years. The commission, headed by former high court chief justice G Rohini, is giving the finishing touches to its report that will be submitted next month.

SC-ST students fall behind national average on NEET pass percentage

Students from the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes did not feature in the top 50 candidates across India and also lagged behind in the pass percentage recorded.

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Vote transfer big challenge before Bihar Oppn alliance

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Alliance arithmetic may make it difficult for BJP to repeat 2014 feat

The outcome in this region will largely depend on caste alignments, particularly of the Other Backward Classes and the Dalits. The BJP has not fielded its sitting MPs in three (Etawah, Hardoi and Misrikh) out of four reserved seats. In all, the BJP has changed six candidates in the 13 seats that will be voting.

Lok Sabha elections 2019: With turncoats from Congress, BJP looks to regain ground in Saurashtra

The BJP is hoping the induction of top Congress leaders would help it regain lost ground in Saurashtra, which has seven out of Gujarat’s 26 Lok Sabha seats.

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Uneasy calm in Muzaffarnagar village marked by 2013 riots

In August 2013, members of the Jat community of nearby Malikpura village, around 4 km from Kawal, allegedly killed Shahnawaz, a Muslim youth, after an altercation. In retaliation, a mob from Kawal killed two Jats – Sachin and his cousin, Gaurav. This sparked the violence.

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Why caste numbers can mislead poll predictions

One of the hazards associated with using socioreligious population figures to predict electoral outcomes is their variation, both in numbers and other attributes, across the country.

Maratha quota: Earlier panels relied on 1931 census, High Court told

Arguing for Akhil Maratha Mahasangh, advocate Vineet Naik told a bench of justices Ranjit More and Bharati Dangre that the Mandal Commission had erred in terming Marathas a forward class.

Maratha quota panel report scientific, accurate: HC told

The Gaikwad commission report, which became the basis to grant 16% reservation to Marathas under the socially and educationally backward class (SEBC) category, was accurate, scientific and much-needed, petitioners arguing in support of the quota told the Bombay high court (HC) on Wednesday.

The ordinance on teacher quota seems aimed at vote banks

The uncertainty which the ruling party now faces is whether the gains of the EWS quota would be nullified by the ordinance to prevent a reduction in reserved jobs in higher educational institutions by the central government

OBCs to hold march on first day of Maha session on Feb 25

The organisers of the protest are also opposing any probable move on part of the state government to induct Marathas into the OBC category.