Bhopal, Oct 28 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh General Administration Department on Tuesday issued a significant administrative order that reshapes its legal representation in the ongoing judicial battle over the Other Backward Class (OBC) reservation, officials said. This latest directive, released on Monday comes at a critical juncture as the state defends its decision to increase the OBC reservation from 14 to 27 per cent. The move follows an order passed by the Supreme Court in February 2026 regar…
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Nagpur, April 9 (IANS) Congress Legislative Party Leader Vijay Wadettiwar on Thursday formally wrote to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, demanding immediate implementation of a Supreme Court ruling regarding the Teacher Aptitude and Intelligence Test (TAIT) 2022 teacher recruitment process. The move aims to address the alleged injustice faced by candidates from backward classes.Wadettiwar highlighted that, due to flawed decisions by the state’s Education Department, approximately 8,000…
New Delhi, April 7 (IANS) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has raised serious concerns over the inclusion of Dalit, Adivasi, and Other Backward Class (OBC) entrepreneurs in India’s public works and infrastructure contracts.Posting on Facebook, he asked, “Last year, out of Rs 16,500 crore worth of public works contracts, how many contracts were awarded to Dalit, Adivasi, and backward class businesses? Their response was deeply worrying—the government does not maintain any data on this.”The is…
Bhopal, March 6 (IANS) As the Madhya Pradesh Employees Selection Board (MPESB), earlier known as ‘Vyapam’ is set to conduct exams for the recruitment of forest guards on April 7, the Opposition Congress, on Friday, criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party-led state government for not “reserving” seats for the candidates belonging to the Schedule Castes. Madhya Pradesh Leader of Opposition (LoP) and veteran Congress leader Umang Singhar shared a post on his social media account, alleging that the “p…
Kolkata, Jan 6 (IANS) A bench of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has directed the Railway Board to investigate a complaint alleging that in 2010, when the incumbent West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, was the Railways Minister, a tender policy was amended to provide reservation under the guise of minority preference, reducing the statutory reservation for SC/ST/OBC categories to benefit the Muslim community, which is not provided for under the Constitution of India.As per th…
Kolkata, Dec 24 (IANS) A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Wednesday, directed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to clarify Other Backward Class (OBC) certificates issued by the West Bengal government after 2010, which were scrapped earlier by the high court, as supporting documents for the second phase of the three-stage Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state. Last week, the West Bengal unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), approached the Calcutta High Court’s single…