The quantum is well below expectations of Muslims who have been pressing for exclusive reservation of 10% The Union government's much-anticipated Quota-within-Quota sop for minorities as a whole has left Muslim groups confused and groping for answers. On Thursday, the Union Cabinet marked off 4.5 percentage points from within the 27 per cent OBC Central Quota, allocating the share to religious minorities, among them Muslims, Sikhs, Christians and Jains. (In the 2001...
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Battle lines being drawn over minority sub-Quota
-The Hindu The government's decision on a sub-Quota of 4.5 per cent for minorities within the overall 27 per cent reservation for the backward classes promises to be the new trigger for a heated political discourse just ahead of several Assembly elections, including the all-important poll in Uttar Pradesh just a few months away. More than a decade ago, the V.P. Singh government ushered in the ‘Mandal revolution' in North India. It...
More »In the year and now by Ramachandra Guha
The Republic of India has a billion (and more) citizens who, at any given time, are involved in a thousand (and more) controversies. Knowing which controversy is the most significant is always hard, and often impossible, to judge. Even so, we can be fairly certain that 2011 will go down in Indian history as the year of the Great Lokpal Debate, just as 1962 was the year of the war...
More »Support on streets drives up Lokpal Bill in the House by Smita Gupta
Women's groups may need to take lessons from Team Anna in campaigning for their Quota bill Most MPs are opposed to the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Bill, 2011, which was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Thursday, just as they were opposed to the Women's Reservation Bill. But the Lokpal Bill stands a better chance of being enacted. Unlike the Women's Reservation Bill, which had no support on the streets, the anti-corruption law...
More »UP polls ahead, govt clears 4.5% minority Quota within OBC 27%
-Express News Service The government today decided to create a 4.5 per cent sub-Quota for backward minorities within the 27 per cent Quota for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in jobs and admission to educational institutions. The political significance of the move lies in its timing just ahead of elections in Uttar Pradesh. The sub-Quota was one of the Congress’s 2009 poll promises, but it appears in the current context to be targeted...
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