India sets quotas for private colleges
Chronicle of Higher Education, (2006)Abstract
The article reports that India's Parliament has amended the country's Constitution to impose admission quotas for lower castes and classes in all private colleges that do not receive government aid. Admission quotas are popular in India, where the Constitution guarantees that nearly a quarter of all government jobs and student places in higher education are reserved for members of indigenous tribal groups or lower castes. The new legislation provides greater access to higher education to members of the lower classes and castes, who constitute more than a quarter of India's population.