UP Govt: Will correct anomalies in minority quota

Lucknow: The Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh (UP) Government has confirmed that it is contemplating to correct the anomalies in the minority quota that was announced by the erstwhile Samajwadi Party (SP) Government led by Akhilesh Yadav.

Commenting on the reports that the Yogi Government's decision to do away with the minority quota, UP Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Monday said that the government was studying the former state Government's minority quota, and would only allow those where all the eligibility criteria are met.

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"We are in the process of studying all the schemes. We will continue those which we consider are important but scrap others," Maurya told.

Yogi Government's decision is according to its poll promise, wherein it had announced to do away with the appeasement. (ANI)

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