The Union government has directed all educational institutions and universities to implement the 10% quota for the poor in the general category from the coming academic year, Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Sunday. “The government has already issued an official memorandum... We issued directives a couple of days ago to all universities and colleges to implement the quota from the current academic year [2019-20] itself. We hope all the State governments will implement it,” he told reporters here. Mr. Javadekar said the general election was a mere 90 days away and the Opposition parties did not have a leader capable of taking on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The country needs the solid governance provided by the BJP so far,” he said, discounting any threat to the BJP from a grand alliance of Opposition parties.

Source: The Hindu January 20, 2019 16:07 UTC