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
A community that has given Maharashtra 13 of its 19 chief ministers has spent 46 years asking to be classified as backward, and its own government's commission found 85% of its families living on under Rs 25,000 a year.
Who is counted as backward in India, which commission decided it, and what the courts did about it. Read from the commission reports and the judgments themselves rather than from the reporting of them.
- 13 of 19
- Maharashtra chief ministers from the Maratha community
- 76.86%
- Maratha families in agriculture or farm labour, per the state commission
- 37.28%
- Below the poverty line, against a state average of 24.2%
- 50%
- The reservation ceiling the quota crossed, fixed in 1992
1 piece · 23 documents held · 2 government primary