April 11, 2008
India's Supreme Court Upholds Additional Quotas for Admissions to National Universities
New Delhi
In a major victory for advocates of using quotas to fight the discriminatory effects of India's ancient caste system, India's Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a 2006 law that allots 27 percent of all seats at national public higher-education institutions for poorer members of lower castes and classes.
Given that colleges here are already subject to other quotas, the ruling means that nearly half of all seats at Indian universities overseen by the national government will be
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