{"id":89910,"date":"2019-12-08T15:10:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T09:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=12247"},"modified":"2019-12-08T15:10:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T09:40:31","slug":"anglo-indians-left-out-as-bill-to-extend-quota-in-legislature-gets-nod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/anglo-indians-left-out-as-bill-to-extend-quota-in-legislature-gets-nod\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglo-Indians left out as Bill to extend quota in legislature gets nod"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Union Cabinet has approved a proposal to abolish the reservation of two seats for the Anglo-Indian community in the Lok Sabha while extending the reservation of Scheduled Castes(SC) and Schedule Tribes(ST) by 10 years.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Anglo-Indians:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The term Anglo Indian is defined as per the article 366 (2) of the Indian constitution as a person whose father or any of whose other male progenitors in the male line is or was of European descent but who is a native of India.<\/li><li>As Anglo Indians are numerically an extremely small community and being interspersed all over India,the Anglo-Indians were provided reservations in legislative bodies.<\/li><li>Article 331 of the Constitution provided that the President may,if he is of the opinion that the Anglo-Indian community is not adequately represented in the House of the People,nominate not more than two members of that community to the House of the People.<\/li><li>In the same way for the state Assemblies,Article 333 has provided for the Governor to nominate the members.<\/li><li>Article 334(b) extended the reservation of the Anglo Indian community in the Legislative bodies for 40 years through the insertion of this article.<\/li><li>Subsequently,the reservation for the Anglo-Indian community was extended till the year 2020 through the 95th Amendment,2009.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Union Cabinet has approved a proposal to abolish the reservation of two seats for the Anglo-Indian community in the Lok Sabha while extending the reservation of Scheduled Castes(SC) and Schedule Tribes(ST) by 10 years. Facts: About Anglo-Indians: The term Anglo Indian is defined as per the article 366 (2) of the Indian constitution as a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/anglo-indians-left-out-as-bill-to-extend-quota-in-legislature-gets-nod\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anglo-Indians left out as Bill to extend quota in legislature gets nod<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1234],"tags":[7275],"class_list":["post-89910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-current-affairs","tag-anglo-indians","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704818632},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}