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Abhyudaya Yojana is a programme under the Uttar Pradesh Social Welfare Department. Through the support of this initiative, around 350 candidates have achieved success in various competitive exams over the last four years. Notably, 23 candidates have secured positions as IAS officers and over 100 candidates have cleared the UPPSC exams.

Stand-Up India is a government scheme that offers financial support to people from SC/ST community and women entrepreneurs who are above the age of 18. The purpose of this initiative is to facilitate bank loans to at least one SC/ST borrower and at least one woman borrower per branch to set up Greenfield projects.

Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad will introduce the Constitution (126th Amendment Bill) 2019, in the Lok Sabha on Monday (December 9)
                   

The Supreme Court allows the review petition filed by the Centre against Court’s judgement of ‘diluting’ various stringent provisions of SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The Centre had filed a review petition after the SC judgment led to violent nation-wide protests by various SC/ST organisations on April 2, 2018.

Chitambaresh, Kerala high court judge has grabbed headlines for his controversial speech at the Tamil Brahmin Global meet in Kochi on July 19.  Minister for SC/ST and culture Balan said that the statement made by the judge will convey a wrong message to the society

The barely adult woman was raped in turns in front of her husband while the perpetrators kept roughing up the man. They videotaped the act and later extorted the couple, despite which they circulated the video on social media.

SC/ST employees who were earlier demoted are expected to be promoted; CM and Deputy CM welcome the move

In view of the misuse of Schedule Caste and Scheduled Tribes Atrocities Act of 1989 on March 20, 2019, the Supreme Court banned the FIR received under this Act. The court had also said that there should be a provision of anticipatory bail for the accused

On January 2, the chief priest of the Sabarimala temple had closed the doors of the shrine for performing Suddhikalasam (purification rites) after it was confirmed that two women entered the temple through the back gate and had the darshan of Lord Ayyappa.

MyNation, on September 12, 2018, was the first to report that the Modi government was seriously mulling the introduction of income-based reservation for upper castes. Constitution would soon be amended for making way for this reservation without touching those for the SC/ST and OBC
 

Assuming that most of the NOTA votes in MP came from disgruntled BJP voters, especially from the high castes, who were irked by the Centre’s SC/ST Amendment Act, NOTA went on to dwarf several other political outfits, including the AAP and Samajwadi Party.

In the Madhya Pradesh polls today, as many as 2,899 candidates, including 1,094 independents, are in the fray. While BJP is contesting all the 230 seats, the Congress has fielded 229 candidates. With a number of issues, such as anti-incumbency, the agrarian crisis, and others, will BJP be successful in forming the government for the fourth time?

Out of a total of 70 appointments, only 16 were from the upper castes. Out of the 54 appointments from the backward castes, 31 were in terms of merit