reservation

The Supreme Court stayed until August the 27 percent reservation of seats in elite central educational institutions for backward class students.In an interim order on a bunch of petitions by Youth for Equality and other student bodies, Justices Arijit Pasayat and L.S Panta stayed the quota meant for socially and educationally backward classes (SEBC) students for the coming academic session of institutions like the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs).