Discretionary Quota

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  "Welcome Move": UP Clerics On Doing Away With Discretionary Haj Quota

  The Centre's recent decision to do away with the discretionary Haj quota has had a positive response from the Muslim clerics who said that it will end discrimination among pilgrims.

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  "Don't Burn Stubble, Get Rs 1 lakh": AAP Leader's Unique Offer To Punjab

  AAP MLA Sandhwan announced that he will give Rs 1 lakh to every village panchayat where farmers shun the practice. The promised amount will be given from the MLA's discretionary quota, said an official statement.

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  Scrap MP Quota In Kendriya Vidyalayas: BJP Leader Demands In Rajya Sabha

  There are 788 MPs and each MP has the discretionary power to recommend 10 children for admission in a KVS, BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi said

• Supreme Court rejects Centre's plea on Haj discretionary quota

  The Supreme Court today declined to entertain the Centre's request to defer till next year its July 23 order limiting the government's discretionary quota for Haj pilgrims.

• Supreme Court reduces government's discretionary quota seats for Haj pilgrims

  The Supreme Court on Monday reduced the government's discretionary quota seats for Haj pilgrims to 300 from the 5,050 seats, proposed by it.

• Karnataka Law Minister gets clean chit from Advocate General

  Karnataka Law Minister S Suresh Kumar, who had resigned over allegations that he had violated rules in securing a residential site here under discretionary quota, has been given a clean chit on the issue by the Advocate General.

• Tamil Nadu: Three security officers of Karunanidhi raided by vigilance officials

  Vigilance officials today raided the premises of three security officers of DMK president M Karunanidhi in Chennai over allegations that they had caused "losses" to the Tamil Nadu Housing Board in land allotment under the discretionary quota method.

• Group of Ministers suggests scrapping of discretionary quota to tackle corruption

  Cornered by a string of scams, the Centre has set the ball rolling on tackling corruption. The Group of Ministers (GoM) on Corruption which met in New Delhi on Monday night has decided to recommend, among other proposals, the scrapping of discretionary quotas in all ministries. The eight-member panel was formed last month and has sixty days to come...

• Centre to remove ministers' discretionary quota to tackle corruption

  With the Centre pushed to a corner over several scams, the government is now planning to introduce steps to tackle the menace of corruption at the highest level.The Group of Ministers (GoM) on corruption will soon recommend the removal of discretionary quota in all the ministries.Out of the 54 ministries, 38 ministries have discretionary quota. The...