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The Mandal Commission was established in India in 1979 by the Janata Party government under Prime Minister Morarji Desai with a mandate to "identify the socially or educationally backward. "It was headed by Indian parliamentarian B.P. Mandal to consider the question of seat reservations and quotas for people to redress caste discrimination, and used eleven social, economic, and educational indicators to determine backwardness. In 1980, the commission's report affirmed the affirmative action practice under Indian law whereby members of Other Backward Classes (OBC), were given exclusive access to a certain portion of government Jobs and slots in public universities, and recommended changes to these quotas, by 27%
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The ratio between the sum of the digits of a two-digit number and that two-digit number is 1 : 6. If the digit in the unit's place is three less than th...
The raw material cost of an article is 1/3 of its manufacture cost. If the cost of manufacturing is decreased in the ratio of 4 : 3 and the cost of it...
Rs 720 is to be divided among P, Q and R so that P gets 3/5 of Q’s share and R gets 1/3 of P’s share. Share of R is:
Consider two natural numbers, 'a' and 'b', which are in the ratio of 17:20. If we increase 'a' by 18 and decrease 'b' by 20, the new ratio of 'a' to 'b'...
A two-digit number has a sum of its digits equal to 9. Additionally, if 27 is subtracted from this number, the resulting number has its digits reversed....
Determine the smallest possible value of 'P' that makes the eight-digit number '4423P456' fully divisible by 3.