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[ZESTCaste] Free UPSC exam coaching for SC/ST/OBC

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/Free-UPSC-exam-coaching-for-SC/ST/OBC/articleshow/9384173.cms

Free UPSC exam coaching for SC/ST/OBC
Manjiri Damle, TNN | Jul 27, 2011, 05.08PM IST

PUNE: Maharashtra government's Pune based Yashwantrao Chavan academy
of development and administration (Yashada) will conduct an entrance
test for admission to Babasaheb Ambedkar competitive exam coaching
centre on October 2.

The coaching centre will offer free coaching to candidates of
scheduled caste, scheduled tribe, nomads, other backward classes and
denotified tribes for competitive exam to be conducted by the union
public service commission (UPSC) in 2012. Some seats will also be
reserved for women candidates.

The October 2 entrance exam will select 60 candidates who will receive
free coaching from top state government bureaucrats for 11 months.
Selected candidates will be given free lodging, boarding at Yashada
and monthly stipend of Rs 2500 each. Besides they will also get
facilities like library, internet, computer and study room for free.

The entrance exam will be of 200 marks and will be based on 2011 UPSC
prelim exam pattern. Candidates who hold a degree of any recognised
university and have domicile certificate can appear for the exam which
will be conducted in association with N Wadia college.

Candidates will have to submit their applications by August 30 and
applications forms can be downloaded from www.yashada.org/acec or
www.geexam.com websites. Filled forms with Rs 250 exam fee either in
the form of demand draft or cash should be sent to Centre for talent
search and excellence, Nowrosjee Wadia college, V K Jog road, camp,
Pune 1.

The entrance exam will be conducted at Pune, Nagpur, Nashik,
Aurangabad, Amravati and Mumbai during 11 am to 1 pm.

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[ZESTCaste] Ambedkar lesson for JNU & DU in court

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Ambedkar lesson for JNU & DU in court
OUR LEGAL CORRESPONDENT

New Delhi, July 27: The country would not have had a B.R. Ambedkar and
its "brilliant Constitution" if he was denied college admission over
low marks, the Supreme Court said today, criticising JNU and Delhi
University for failing to fill OBC quotas.

"The minimum pass mark those days was 35 per cent. Dr Ambedkar had got
37 per cent marks. If you had denied him admission at the threshold,
would you have had a Dr Ambedkar and a brilliant Constitution?" a
two-judge bench said while hearing a plea against the OBC reservation
policies of the two universities.

OBC reservations at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) have never in
the past three years touched the 27 per cent mandated under a 1993
central act.

In 2008-09, it reserved only 12 per cent seats, excluding the creamy
layer that was expected to compete in the general category. While only
9.93 per cent got in through the quota, another 10.33 per cent came in
on merit. JNU then showed its total OBC reservation for the year as
20.26 per cent.

Delhi University (DU) has been giving a 10 per cent relaxation in
marks to OBC candidates over the general category percentage but with
cut-offs touching almost 100 per cent, OBC students are expected to
get a minimum of 90 per cent to get into some of its elite colleges.

To justify this, DU has fallen back on a 2008 Supreme Court judgment
that said the difference between the general cut-off and backward
cut-off should not be more than 10 per cent. The aim was to balance
the needs of the weaker sections with considerations of merit.

As a result of the cut-off mechanism, effective OBC reservation in DU
has been in single digits, virtually nullifying the central act.

Both universities have been diverting the vacant OBC seats to the
general category, something the top court had said earlier they could
do.

But at today's hearing, Justice R.V. Raveendran, sitting alongside
Justice A.K. Patnaik, suggested the merit argument was being stretched
too far. "Let us not harp only on merit. Equality is only equality
between equals, not unequals. Some push is necessary for some, whether
some like it or dislike it," said Raveendran, who was part of a
five-judge bench that had in 2008 upheld the 27 per cent quota.

To say general candidates have 90 per cent and no OBC students with
less than 80 per cent will get in is "very "unreasonable", Raveendran
said.

"Institutions are required to help them (weaker sections). Money gives
you access to better coaching, better standard of living. So more
marks does not mean more clever. You (the varsities) must take
material that is not the best and make them the best. You cannot
insist that you will take the best," he said, appearing to suggest
high scores could come from having had facilities weaker sections
often don't have.

The strong pro-quota observations by the judge and his presence on the
bench that had upheld the OBC quota law prompted a response from a
group of anti-reservation students. P.P. Rao, the group's lawyer,
insisted the judges send back the matter to Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia
to be placed before another bench.

Rao kept emphasising the minority judgment of Justice Dalveer Bhandari
in the five-judge bench judgment which had warned against a too large
gap between cutoffs for general students and those from weaker
sections. He implied that another judge (Justice Raveendran) could not
interpret Bhandari's words. Justice Raveendran then recused himself
from the matter, ensuring the debate remained inconclusive.

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[ZESTCaste] Dr.Ambedkar wanted states' division on linguistic basis - Lagadapati

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Dr.Ambedkar wanted states' division on linguistic basis - Lagadapati

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[ZESTCaste] Scholarship scheme for madarsa girls a farce: SP

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Scholarship-scheme-for-madarsa-girls-a-farce-SP/Article1-726265.aspx

Scholarship scheme for madarsa girls a farce: SP
Press Trust Of India
Lucknow, July 27, 2011

Accusing the BSP-led Mayawati government of making false promises, the
Samajwadi Party on Wednesday said its announcement of scholarships for
madarsa-going girls was nothing but a farce. "The state government has
a long history of making false promises. Announcing scholarships for
madarsa
girls is nothing but a farce," Ahmad Hasan, Leader of the Opposition
in Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council, told reporters here.

He alleged the state government had not distributed scholarships to
minority students to the tune of Rs 34 crore last fiscal.

In October 2008 during a convention of religious leaders, Mayawati had
announced that Urdu teachers would be appointed in Muslim-dominated
areas, Hasan said.

The CM should tell how many Urdu teachers had been appointed and where
they had been posted, he said.

SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav had recruited 14 per cent Muslims
during his regime, Hasan said.

The BSP government had recruited 33,000 police jawans in which only
two per cent -- 650 are Muslims, he claimed.

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[ZESTCaste] Dalits' needs to be brought to Centre

http://expressbuzz.com/cities/kochi/dalits-needs-to-be-brought-to-centre/298627.html

Dalits' needs to be brought to Centre

Express News Service
Last Updated : 28 Jul 2011 09:34:41 AM IST

KOCHI: AICC general secretary Shanimol Usman has said the emergency
needs of the Dalit society in Kerala will be brought to the notice of
the Central Government. She was inaugurating the district-level
meeting held by the Bharatiya Dalit Congress. Dalit Congress state
president K Vidyadharan presided over the function. AICC
representatives Arun Nathan, Nirmala and Anushree shared their views
on the Indian National Congress and the needs of Dalits. DCC general
secretaries A K Raju and V K Thankaraj also attended the meeting.