Topics
One subject at a time, explained from the documents that record it. A topic appears here once something is published under it.
Education
One body stands between roughly 40 lakh candidates a year and the seats they are competing for, and it was registered as a society under a law from 1860.
How the institutions that examine, admit and certify people in India actually work, and what the record shows when they fail. The National Testing Agency's own charter, the NEET-UG 2024 leak, the cancellation of UGC-NET in a day, and what was rebuilt afterwards.
- 40 lakh
- Students the estimate covers
- 23,33,297
- Candidates who sat the paper on 5 May 2024
- 1,563
- Scorecards cancelled, with a re-test offered
- 1 day
- Between UGC-NET being held and being cancelled
5 pieces · 40 documents held · 18 government primary · The National Testing Agency
Reservation
Every limit on reservation in India was written somewhere other than the Constitution: ten years in the Poona Pact of 1932, fifty per cent in a single judgment of 1962, an income line in a departmental memorandum of 2019. Not one of them has held where it was put.
Who is counted as backward in India, who decided it, and what was traded to get a seat. Read from the Poona Pact, the Constituent Assembly debates, the commission reports, the constitutional amendments and the judgments themselves rather than from the reporting of them.
- 10 years
- The only expiry in the Pact, and it covered the primary elections, not the seats
- 80 years
- The period now written in, running to 2030
- 49.5%
- Total reservation under the memoranda, half a point under the ceiling
- 59.50%
- Total reservation once the 10% for economically weaker sections is added to 15%, 7.5% and 27%
12 pieces · 51 documents held · 29 government primary · Reservation in India