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The Bihar assembly on Thursday approved a hike in quotas for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Extremely Backward Classes and Other Backward Classes from the existing 50 per cent to 65 per cent.
The Bihar assembly on Thursday increased the reservation for deprived castes from 50 per cent to 65 per cent in government jobs and educational instit
Maharashtra and Karnataka are also facing caste debates, with the former seeing protests over Maratha quota reservation, while the latter is yet to release the data
The Bihar Assembly unanimously passed a bill to increase reservations for SCs, STs, OBCs, and EBCs in state jobs and educational institutions to 65 per cent, exceeding the Supreme Court's 50 per cent cap.
For EBCs, the quota will be 25 per cent, up from 18 per cent, while for the OBCs, it will rise from 12 per cent to 15 per cent