This story is from July 28, 2020

Averse to OBC quota, Centre gets caught up in legal knots

Averse to OBC quota, Centre gets caught up in legal knots
Chennai: The Union government’s understanding, interpretation and implementation of other backward communities (OBC) reservation in All India Quota (AIQ) medical seats are full of self-contradictions and somersaults.
The Madras high court on Monday delivered a far-from-conclusive ruling on the issue asking the Centre to bring in a mechanism to enforce OBC quota in AIQ seats.
But this judicial nudge is neither necessary nor consequential as the Centre is not unaware of its constitutional obligations. Yet, for more than three decades it has been ducking it and denying OBCs their due.
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