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Only 30% of SC, ST, OBC faculty vacancies filled at IITs, Central Universities in a year: Centre -Abhinay Lakshman

-The Hindu Of the 1,439 vacancies identified between September 2021 and 2022, only 449 were filled with faculty members from reserved categories, the Education Ministry told the Lok Sabha Despite a year-long mission mode recruitment drive to hire faculty for reserved category positions at the elite Indian Institutes of Technology and Central Universities, just over 30% of identified vacancies were filled, the Education Ministry told Parliament this week. In the one year between...

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Axe on grants for poor -Basant Kumar Mohanty

-The Telegraph Scholarship pool for OBCs, minorities reduced New Delhi: The pool of poor schoolchildren from the Other Backward Classes  and religious minorities who are eligible for two government scholarships has been drastically cut short from this year. The Centre has revised two schemes — the Pre-Matric Scholarship for OBCs and the Pre-Matric Scholarship for minorities — by limiting eligibility to students of Classes IX and X, and only those enrolled in...

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One In Every Three Farmers in Telangana is a Tenant, Finds New Survey -G Ram Mohan

-TheWire.in The survey also provided an insight into the socio-economic conditions of the tenant farmers, finding that a majority of them are OBCs and Dalits. Hyderabad: A field study by the Rythu Swarajya Vedika (RSV) has made several revelations about the conditions of farmers in Telangana, including that one in every three farmers is a tenant farmer. The findings of the first-of-its-kind survey done in Telangana after its formation in 2014, run contrary...

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EWS quota breaches 50 pc ceiling, defeats creamy layer concept, excludes poor SC/ST, OBCs, SC told

-PTI/The Telegraph Quota is a deceitful and a backdoor attempt to destroy concept of reservation: Expert The Centre's decision to grant 10 per cent quota for the EWS category in admissions and jobs violates the basic structure of the Constitution on multiple counts including that it breaches the 50 per cent cap on reservation, the Supreme Court was told on Tuesday. The quota for the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) is a "deceitful and...

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Consumption of non-veg food items has risen since 2015-16, points out NFHS-5 data

Is India a country where most people eat vegetarian food? The answer to this question is a bit complex. The consumption of either vegetarian or non-vegetarian food depends not just on one's personal choice but also on one’s geographical location, caste and religious background, gender and marital status. There are other determining factors as well behind a person's choice of food.  The results of the newly released data of the fifth...

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