Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the National SC/ST Hub in October 2016. Credit and finance for MSMEs: The MSME ministry’s scheme to support scheduled caste and scheduled tribe entrepreneurs to ...

Recently, data obtained under the Right to Information (RTI) Act revealed that 16 of the 19 Scheduled Caste /Scheduled Tribe (SC/ST) cells in the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) across the ...

The Centre has told the Supreme Court that quashing of reservation in promotion to SC/ST employees in government jobs may lead to "employee unrest" and "multiple litigations".

Lakshmi Venkataraman Venkatesan is founding and managing trustee, Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust . Kishor Kharat is former MD & CEO, IDBI Bank and Indian Bank. The recent Bihar caste survey brought out ...

CM Gupta directed officials to fast-track pending formalities so that remaining projects can begin without delay. She shared that nine projects, completed at a cost of ₹4.12 crore, were inaugurated at ...

Students belonging to the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communities continue to face hurdles amidst the pandemic in getting admission through the centralised allotment procedure in undergraduate ...

In the Nagaraj case, the Supreme Court said that the government had to collect “quantifiable data showing backwardness of the class and inadequacy of representation of that class in public employment” ...

NEW DELHI: The Centre seems to be dragging its feet on the recent Supreme Court order allowing the state governments to sub-classify Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST). The ruling party ...

State law requires the government to spend 24.1 per cent of the total allocable budget on SC/ST welfare.

Though the Centre claims that 19 of the 23 Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) have dedicated cells for the welfare of scheduled caste and scheduled tribe (SC-ST) students, 16 of them are ...

Final year postgraduate (PG) medical students from SC/ST communities are in a fix as a number of government medical colleges have demanded that they pay tuition fees despite an order for fee exemption ...