Court approval must for quota change, says Law Dept
This legal point may potentially come in the way of hiking the reservations for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) from 32 per cent to 51 per cent -- one of the key recommendations of the report submitted by the Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes to the government.
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