The party to intensify campaign for implementation of quota It demands setting up of model residential schools BHUBANESWAR: Activists of Samajwadi Party on Sunday demanded 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Classes in employment and education in the State. “Orissa government had taken five years for implementation of 27 per cent reservation for OBCs in employment in 1994. The same was struck down by a decision of the State Administrative Tribunal (SAT) last year. The reservation of OBCs has now been reduced to 11.25 per cent,” party’s national general secretary Arabinda Dhali said. He said when the Central government went for providing reservation to OBC students in IITs and IIMs, the State government was yet to...
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