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Centre Seeks Review Of Supreme Court Judgement On Backward Classes List The centres request comes days after the Supreme Court ruled that only the President has the power to identify and add a community to the SEBC list Updated: May 13, 2021 9:50 pm IST The centre has filed a petition in the Supreme Court over power to add communities to SEBC list New Delhi: The power that lies only with the President to add a community to the Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC) list should ...

The President’s inclusion of classes and communities in the Central List for SEBC “shall be deemed to include SEBCs in relation to each State and Union Territory”.

Centre moves SC seeking review of judgement setting aside law on Maratha reservation ANI | Updated: May 13, 2021 22:26 IST New Delhi [India], May 13 (ANI): The Central government on Thursday filed a review petition before the Supreme Court urging it to review its judgement where it unanimously declared a Maharashtra law which provided reservation benefits to the Maratha community, taking the quota limit in the state above 50 per cent, as unconstitutional. "...

File Image Mumbai: The Union government on Thursday filed a review petition in the Supreme Court challenging the majority view of the Constitution Bench that only the Centre had the power under the 102nd Constitution Amendment to identify and list Socially and Educationally Backward Classes, and not states. The Centre has prayed that the power that lies only with the President to add a community to the SEBC list should be given to states. The Centre’s move came after the Supreme Court, on ...

MVA delegation requests Maharashtra governor to take up Maratha quota issue with Centre A delegation of the ruling coalition leaders led by Uddhav Thackeray met the governor days after the Supreme Court struck down the quota in education and government jobs for Marathas in Maharashtra Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray (File photo: ANI) Engagement: 0 Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday met Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari and requested him to take up the issue of Maratha quota wit...

Representative image MUMBAI: Days after the Supreme Court struck down the legislation to provide reservation to Marathas in education and jobs, a state cabinet sub-committee headed by public works minister Ashok Chavan on Saturday decided to set up a seven-member high-level committee headed by a retired judge of the high court to study the apex court verdict and make recommendations. “We are in the process of appointing a committee of experts. The committee will study and analyse the Supreme...

May 06, 2021, 12:10 IST The 102nd Constitution Amendment Act of 2018 inserted Articles 338B, which deals with the structure, duties and powers of the NCBC, and 342A which deals with the power of the President to notify a particular caste as SEBC and the power of Parliament to change the list. NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that it is the Central government alone which is empowered to identify castes under the Socially and Economically Backward Classes (SEBC) and includ...

New Delhi, May 5 The Supreme Court today declared unconstitutional the Maharashtra State Reservation for Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC) Act, 2018, that gave reservation to the Maratha community in government jobs and education, saying it breached the 50 per cent ceiling fixed by a nine-judge Constitution Bench in the Mandal case. A five-judge Constitution Bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan held that there were no extraordinary circumstances to give reservation to the Mara...

Representative Image NEW DELHI: In a major setback for the Maharashtra government, the SC on Wednesday declared the state law to grant reservation to Marathas as unconstitutional and held that the community is not socially and educationally backward to be eligible to be brought within the ambit of affirmative action. A Constitution bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, L Nageswara Rao, S Abdul Nazeer, Hemant Gupta and S Ravindra Bhat was unanimous in its view on the unconstitutionality of the law a...

Urdu Bulletin: Mamatas oath-taking ceremony, COVID situation reported ANI | Updated: May 06, 2021 11:50 IST New Delhi [India], May 6 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjees oath-taking ceremony, for the third consecutive term, was highlighted by several Urdu publications in their Wednesday editions. Most of these publications also carried reports related to the COVID-19 situation in the country. Rashtriya Sahara: The newspaper carried the news ...