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Maratha Quota: SC To Decide On Plea Schedule On February 5 The High Court had accepted the Maharashtra governments argument that the Maratha community was socially and educationally backwards. File photo Outlook Web Bureau 2021-01-20T12:24:05+05:30 Maratha Quota: SC To Decide On Plea Schedule On February 5 outlookindia.com 2021-01-20T12:25:57+05:30 Also read The Supreme Court of India on Wednesday said that the schedule of hearing pleas relating to the 2018 Mahara...

SC defers to Feb 5 hearing on petitions challenging Bombay HC verdict ANI | Updated: Jan 20, 2021 14:21 IST New Delhi [India], January 20 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday deferred the petitions challenging the Bombay High Courtverdict upholding reservations to Marathas in jobs and education under Maharashtra Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC) Act, 2018, to February 5. A Constitution Bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan said the matter ...

What are the NCSC and NCBC doing with their Constitutional status! P.N. Sankaran cites two recent incidents to illustrate the apathy of the commissions Constitutionally empowered to protect the rights of the Scheduled Castes and the Backward Classes It is shocking to find how the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) and National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC), both of which have Constitutional status, have failed the Dalits and backward classes, respectively, together constit...

‘CM to urge PM to take positive stand on Maratha quota’ Updated: Updated: Supreme Court should reconsider existing 50% cap on reservations in Maharashtra, says Ashok Chavan Share Article Supreme Court should reconsider existing 50% cap on reservations in Maharashtra, says Ashok Chavan State Public Works Department Minister Ashok Chavan on Friday said Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray will be writing to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to urge him to take a positive stand to protect the constituti...

Back us on Maratha quota in SC: MVA plea to Centre Representative Image Mumbai: The Maha Vikas Aghadi government, on Friday, made a fresh appeal to the Centre to support its stand on the restoration of 12 per cent quota in education and 13 per cent in government jobs for the Maratha community during the Supreme Court hearing scheduled for January 25. The state government’s request comes in the backdrop of the widening rift between the Centre and itself on delays in the clearance of GST du...

Over 2,463 seats vacant for MBBS, BDS: MCC Photo: Pexels Mumbai: Over 2,463 seats in the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) and Bachelor of Dental Studies (BDS) undergraduate (UG) programmes in various medical and dental colleges and universities of India, are vacant, according to the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC). New students wanting to apply for admissions to UG medical and dental programmes were given time to register, from January 4 to 6 for the stray vacancy round, wh...

Panel for backward classes starts functioning Post News Network Bhubaneswar: After 27 years, the Odisha State Commission for Backward Classes (OSCBC) Saturday started functioning in the state. Commission chairperson Justice (retired) Raghunath Biswal and other members Navaneeta Rath, Mitali Chinara and Prasanna Kumar Patra have taken over the charge Saturday. Justice Biswal said a database of the Other Backward Classes (OBC) in the state will be prepared soon. Deserving castes wi...

Has State given up hopes of fighting for Maratha quota in SC, asks BJP MP Chhatrapati Sambhajiraje, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Rajya Sabha MP from Kolhapur and a direct descendant of Chhatrapati Shivaji, on Thursday slammed the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government’s decision to give the Maratha community benefits under the Centre’s economically weaker section (EWS) category. Mr. Sambhajiraje wondered how much of the benefits would actually pass on to the Maratha community ...

A PIL has been filed in the Gujarat High Court against the allocation of 677 additional seats to management quota in the ongoing medical college admission process. The PIL, filed by advocate K R Koshti, said the allocation of 677 extra seats to management quota was against the Gujarat Professional Medical Educational Colleges or Institutions (Regulation of Admission and Fixation of Fees) Act, 2007. The petition is listed for hearing on Thursday. There are a total of 5,298 seats in medical c...

Bombay HC raps state govt, seeks affidavit “It would have been appropriate if the government would have taken a decision as to whether the benefit of the EWS ought to be granted to the candidates who have applied from the SEBC category and the said reservation is stayed by the Apex Court," said the court. December 22, 2020 4:15:33 am The petitioners, Sheetal Zirpe, Varsha Akat and Vikram Warpe, had earlier applied for the vacant posts of tehsildar under the SEBC categ...