stick to pre-2010 7% quotA on obc students: Court
Kolkata, May 23 -- The Calcutta high court (HC) on Thursday directed the West Bengal University of Health Sciences (WBUHS) - Kolkata-based government medical university - to enrol students by providing 7% reservation to 66 other backward classes (OBCs) communities notified in the state before 2010.
A single bench of justice Kausik Chanda in its order noted that a division bench of the HC in May last year had struck down the state's reservation policy, which categorised 180 OBC communities into A and B categories and introduced 10% and 7% reservation, respectively.
The May order cancelled the OBC status of 77 Muslim communities in state since 2010, after which the TMC government suspended quota-based recruitments and admissions and challenge...
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