Tag: scheduled tribes
Union Govt Discontinues Education Scheme for SC/ST Girl Students
The BJP ruled Union Government has decided to discontinue the National Scheme of Incentives to Girls for Secondary Education (NSIGSE), aimed at promoting education...
Huge Protests in Rajasthan for Teachers Recruitment,Youth dies in Police Firing
The agitation for fair inclusion of Adivasis in teacher recruitment has been continuing for over three days in Dungarpur, Rajasthan. On September 26, protesters...
AUD Scraps Fee Waiver for SC/ST/PwD, Students Protest Outside Gates
If the administration of AUD has been consistent in something, it has been in creating constant chaos among students. Even during the pandemic, they...
Dalits, Adivasis, Muslims Overrepresented in Prisons: NCRB Data
The latest data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) shows the continuing over-representation of Dalits, Adivasis, and Muslims in prisons as both...
Reservations for Subcastes Within SC and ST: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on August 27 said that reservations may be given to specific subcastes within the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes categories by...
Adivasis in Tea Gardens of Assam: Identity and Denial of ST...
The state of Assam has witnessed a lot of migration over the years, of which some have been enforced by colonial rule. One of...
Supreme Court’s (New) Reservations Judgment and Its Discontents
On 7 February, a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court handed down a judgment holding that Article 16(4) of the Constitution is only an...
