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Centre bows to OBC-Dalit-Adivasi pressure, reinstates old quota roster

The all-India bandh called by OBCs, Dalits and Adivasis on 2 April seems to have had an effect. The central government filed a review petition in relation to the Supreme Court’s verdict that validated the new ‘department-wise’ roster system to be used to determine reservation quotas in recruitment to central universities. The government also wrote to the UGC to reinstate the old roster

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