India’s supreme court today gave the go ahead for almost 50% of places at the nation’s publicly funded universities and colleges to be reserved for lower-caste and other disadvantaged people.

In extending the world’s largest and oldest affirmative action system, the court accepted that higher education institutions had to reserve a quota of seats for untouchables, tribals and “backward classes”.
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“For the wealthy they can simply buy their children seats at the top colleges. They have 100% quotas for the rich in private institutions. Merit is the first casualty in such cases,” said Anoop Saraya, a senior doctor at Delhi’s prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences, who supports the quota scheme. [Guardian]

Some people are not gonna be happy!