Seeking the judgement's reconsideration, top court says reservation for children from disadvantaged backgrounds doesn't erode minority status of institutions protected under Article 30(1).
Justice Chandrachud's AMU judgment overturned a key aspect of the Supreme Court’s 1967 decision, which had held that an educational institution deriving its legal character from a statute is not “established” by a minority.
It's in statutes, says Aliah University after Amit Malviya attacks 'attempt to eat into reservations'. Will ensure merit is the criteria for filling vacancies, says V-C Wahab.
HC judgment comes on Delhi Tamil Education Association petition, complaining about the education department not responding to its requests to approve appointments to fill vacancies.
Right to Education Act mandated schools to allocate 25% of their seats to disadvantaged communities. To circumvent this and preserve the elite character of schools, minority status became a godsend.
Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.
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