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Of the 3.11 lakh students who took the 2008 Joint Entrance Exam (JEE), 8,514 were from Scheduled Tribes and 28,393 from Scheduled Castes; and, if the last general-category student admitted to the IITs had an overall score of 172 out of 489, the aggregate cut-off for an SC / ST student was 104 (after a 40\% relaxation).
The Times of India 2009
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The petitioners argued that the reservation policy in the country violates the basic structure of the Constitution of India and that the Constitutional (109 Amendment) Act, 2009, should be declared unconstitutional and the reservation period of last 60 years should not be allowed to be extended for another 10 years by amending the provision of Art. 334 of the Constitution. “It has been given out in the petition that if SC, ST, and other backward classes were denied equal opportunities in education and jobs by the ancestors of those in the general category, the same cannot be a valid ground for depriving today†™ s general-category from having an equal opportunity in eduction and jobs in the public sector now.
The Times of India 2009
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