India, Jan. 16 -- The Central Government is all set to implement 10% General Category reservation across all the institutions of higher education( both private and government). The reservation will be extended to the economically weaker sections in the general category along with SCs, STs, and OBCs, studying in higher educational institutes, from the new academic session of 2019-20 starting this July.

Speaking to media about this, Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said "The reservation will be implemented from the 2019-2020 academic session itself. Nearly 25 percent seats will be added to ensure that the reservation does not disturb the existing quota for SC, ST, and other categories. There are around 40,000 colleges and 900 universitie...