SEBCs in Odisha to get 11.25% reservation in higher education

DELIVERING a historic justice to a vast majority of people belonging to other backward classes (OBCs), the state cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Wednesday approved a proposal to provide 11.25 per cent reservation in state's higher secondary and higher education institutions (HEIs) to the socially and economically backward classes (SEBC) students.

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Briefing the media after the cabinet meeting, the chief minister said that the reservation for SEBC category students will be implemented from the current academic year 2025-26, in state public universities, government and government-aided higher education institutions.

The reservation policy will apply to different courses under School and Mass Education, Higher Education, Odia Language, Literature, and Culture, and Sports and Youth Services departments, he said.