On Friday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah moved a modification to the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation Act, 2004 to increase the three according to cent reservation in academic establishments and authorities jobs to those dwelling inside 10 km of the International Border. The Jammu and Kashmir Reservation Act furnished for vertical reservation indirect recruitment, promotions, and admission in extraordinary professional guides to diverse classes; however, these had been not extended to persons adjacent to the International Border. This area faces the brunt of Pakistani military firing and shelling, forcing human beings to shift to more secure locations. “Due to continuous move-border tensions, folks dwelling along the International Border suffer from socio-financial and educational backwardness,” Shah instructed the Lok Sabha.
“Hence, it became felt essential to extend the reservation benefits to men and women living inside the areas adjoining the International Border on the same traces of the individuals living in regions adjoining Actual Line of Control (LoC),” he said. In February, the Union Cabinet had accepted the Jammu and Kashmir government’s inspiration to trouble The Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Ordinance, 2019, through the President.
Earlier, the supply of 3 according to cent reservation changed into to be had simplest for teenagers living within six kilometers of the Line of Control (LoC) in J&K. Now; this provision will be applicable for humans residing near the International Border additionally. This has been an extended-pending demand of the populace residing near the International Border as they face the brunt of pass-border firing in Jammu and Kashmir.
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India has witnessed the quickest boom in packages for scholar visas to the UK, a few of the pinnacle three countries sending the most college students. India is simplest in the back of China in the number of scholar visas while America stands at the 0.33 spot. Giving out figures for April 2018 to March 2019, Harry Booty, regional communication supervisor, Visas, and Immigration, UK Home Office, stated Indian scholar visas stood at 21,500. “China nonetheless leads with about 1,00,000 visas inside the Tier four pupil-associated visa category. The US could have approximately 15,000 Tier-four visas,” he said. “There has been no effect of Brexit on visa programs from India, and we see a steady rise in numbers,” said Booty, including that quantity of packages have handiest been going up. “In the beyond three years, we have seen pupil visa applications double.” Without giving figures, he said among Indian states, Delhi and Mumbai generated the maximum applicants, while there was a huge call from Telangana instead of other states.
