Jats make up more than a quarter of Haryana's 25 million people. They seek to be included in the official category of "Other Backward Classes." Under India's constitution, the government is ...

The protests by Jats for Other Backward Class (OBC) status in Haryana have opened up a debate on the relationship between economic processes and changing caste realities in India (Jaffrelot and ...

Chandigarh, Jun 3 () Ahead of the proposed agitation by Jats seeking reservation from June 5, prohibitory orders were today imposed in seven sensitive districts of Haryana barring gathering of ...

The Jat protesters have blocked several roads around Delhi.photo) The Jat Reservation Agitation was a series of protests in February 2016 by Jat people of North India, especially those in the ...

The All India ... Class 12 students will write their maths exam on Monday. In Haryana, the government deployed army across the state on Saturday and took other preventive steps in view of the Jat ...

Haryana Assembly today unanimously passed a Bill to provide reservation to Jats and five other communities ... proposed to be hiked from 5 to 7 per cent for Class I and II jobs.

Even the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which successfully built a coalition of social groups, mainly from upper castes and Other Backward Classes ... Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) MLAs are from ...

New Delhi: The government Thursday asked the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) to take a decision on the inclusion of the Jat community in the central list of Other Backward Classes ...

AUTHORITIES in India’s Haryana state began lifting curfews yesterday and protesters gradually removed roadblocks after more than a dozen people died in clashes during Jat community demonstrations ...

The assembly in India's Haryana state has passed a bill to provide quotas for the Jat community in government jobs and educational institutes. The government's decision comes after the northern ...

The Jats then were not included in the OBC category. In 1997, they were not found backward by the National Commission for Backward Classes Act (NCBC), with the exception of Rajasthan Jats ...