MARATHA RESERVATION

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• The Bombay High Court upheld the Maharashtra government’s decision to provide reservation to the Maratha community under the SEBC Act, 2018.
  
  
• However, the court ruled that the 16 % quota granted by the state is not “justifiable” and reduced it to 12 % in education and 13 % in government jobs, as recommended by the Maharashtra State Backward Class Commission (MSBCC).
  
  
• The addition of 12-13 % Maratha quota will take the total reservation in the state to 64-65 %. In the Indra Sawhney case, a nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court had ruled that total reservation for backward classes could not go beyond 50 %.