Tag: Bill Passed

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: Providing respite to around 11 lakh teachers appointed till March 2015 under the Right to Education (RTE) Act, a bill was passed in Parliament on Tuesday, extending the date to acquire the minimum qualifications till 2019. As per the existing Act that came into effect from April 1, 2010, teachers were required to […]

New Delhi: Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed a Constitution amendment bill to extend reservation to SCs and STs in Lok Sabha and state assemblies by another ten years, with Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad asserting that the quota in legislatures was required to build a new political leadership of the two communities. The bill was […]