QUOTA: Out of Bounds Case? "Upgrading facilities and recruiting more manpower is done only when there is a pressure to do it. Even the general category students will benefit with the recruitment of more teachers and upgradation of infrastructure." -Prof Yashpal, ex-chairman, UGC.
Karnatakas quota tryst The origin of the BC movement in Mysore can be traced to the conflict between the Mysore Brahmins and the Madras Brahmins in the administrative set-up of the princely State.
The other side of quota It could be argued without any fear of contradiction that the likes of Mulayam Singh Yadav, Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar are products of this first Mandal revolution...
No challenge to creamy layer in State M Veerappa Moily, chairman of the Oversight Committee for implementation of 27 per cent reservation for OBCs in higer education, notes that the implementation will be spread over three years.
Cruel to fix life span of a baby The first chairman of the Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes Prof Ravivarma Kumar is upbeat about the SC upholding quota for OBCs in higher education.
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