1871:

The Madras Census Report of 1871 had documented the fact that non brahminical Hindu and Muslim communities were eliminated from political prospects 

1881:

Need to take special interest in socially backward Entities was suggested 

1882:

Recommendation made to use “Education” as the criteria of backwardness.

1883:

The Report of the Indian Education Commission states that practically no attention is paid to the problems of education of general people 

1885:

Financial support was provided in Madras to spread education 

1893:

Madras government have provided special educational attention for 49 different castes

26 July 1902

Chatrapati sahu Maharaja had given 50% reservation in his states for non Brahmins 

1918:

Upon receiving commission report for backward classes, mhaisur Government had announced reservations in education and jobs 

1920:

Sahu Maharaja had increased the reservation percentage from 50% to 90% in his states 

1927:

Caste was kept as primary factor in the recruitment process for Government job’s in Madras state.The allocation were made as2 out of 12 were allocated for Brahmins5 for non brahminical Hindu’s2 for Muslim’s2 for Anglo Indian’s and1 for SC 

1928:

• Depressed Classes
• Original and Hill Tribe
• Other Backward Class

1931:

Separate election Camps were declared for backward classes
Gandhi’s till death hunger strike(Poona, Sept. 24, 1932) Finally the agreement between Leaders of Caste-Hindus and of Dalits was agreed upon and is well known as Poona Pact

1943:

According to memorandum submitted to viceroy by Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, the First Law Minister, 8.33% of reservation in services in favor of the Scheduled Castes became effective

1944:

Education Department have announced scholarship for Scheduled Castes 

1946:

Reservation for Scheduled castes was increased from 8.33% to 12.33% 

1946-48:

Reservation for Schedule Castes was expanded to 16.66% 

November 26, 1949:

India accepts the Constitution, which includes the principle of reservations for SC & ST and has Article 340 directing State to constitute Backward Classes Commission to recommend similar measures. 

1950:

(First amendment Act of the Indian Constitution)Article 340 of the Indian Constitution, 1950, granted reservation rights to OBC’s 

November 27, 1951:

January 29, 1953:

On January 29, 1953, Central Government had set up the FIRST BACKWARD CLASSES COMMISSION popularly known as Kaka Kalelkar. Commission but Shri. Kaka Kalelkar, the Chairman, had requested the President to reject this report stating that Reservation on basis of caste is not in favor of society 

March 30, 1955:

1979:

PM Morarji Desai of Janata Party Govt. appoints second Backward Classes Commission with Bindeshwar Prasad Mandal, Member of Parliament as Chairman 

December 31, 1980:

Mandal Commission submits its report with unanimous recommendations, identifying 3743 castes as OBCs and estimating its population to be 52%. Reservation of 27% in Govt. employment and educational institutes is one of its several recommendations for the upliftment. The successive Congress Governments pushed the report under the carpet 

1982:

Mandal Commission report tabled in front of Parliament for discussion.Mandal Recommendations were supported by all political parties

August 13, 1990:

• The Office Memorandum O.M. No.36012/31/90-Est. (SCT), dated August 13, 1990 (PM V.P. Singh’s decision of awarding 27% reservations for OBCs in the civil posts and services under Central Government, and in PSUs and in FIs.).
• This invoked fierce reaction from the upper castes and elites in the form of violent agitation including Ram Rath Yatra by L. K. Advani of BJP. This turmoil forced V. P. Singh to resign as BJP withdrew its support.
• It caused spate of petitions objecting the Government’s decision of 27% reservations for OBCs. All such petitions were referred to the 9 Members Constitutional Bench of SC

November 7, 1990:

Supreme Court had placed stay on the implementations on Mandal Commission Recommendations

November 16,1992:

The 9 Members Constitutional Bench of SC upholds that the caste-based reservation of 27% for OBCs is valid with the provision of exclusion of “Creamy Layer”.
Para 225. Hon’bl Mr. Justice Pandian, who opposed the “Creamy Layer” observes:
“It is after 42 years since the advent of our Constitution, the Government is taking the first step to implement the scheme of reservations for OBCs under Article 16(4). In fact some of the States have not even introduced the policy of reservations in the matter of public employment in the favour of OBCs.” 

September 8, 1993:

O.M. No.36012/22/93-Est. (SCT) dated 8.9.1993 issued for implementation of O.M. No.36012/31/90-Est. (SCT), dated August 13, 1990 awarding 27% reservations for OBCs, incorporating the rule of exclusion of “Creamy Layer”. 

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1999:

Dr. Preeti Srivastava Case, where SC held that at the level of Super-Specialty-Courses, no reservation is permissible since it is contrary to the national interests.

August 12, 2005:

SC Judgment in P. A. Inamdar versus Maharashtra State Case regarding applicability of Reservation Policy to the Pvt. Unaided Educational Institutes. The earlier T. A. Pai case also falls under similar type i.e. the freedom of Pvt. Unaided Educational Institutes for deciding fee structure. 

December 21, 2005:

The UPA Government passed the 104th Amendment Bill (93rd Amendment Act) almost unanimously, rolling back the Supreme Court judgment against caste-based admissions in private un-aided higher educational and professional institutions. A new clause, 15(5), was inserted into Article 15 of the Indian Constitution that guarantees the ”right to equality” and “equal protection before law” to all citizens without discrimination. The new clause allows the government to reserve seats for the SCs, STs and OBCs in private unaided educational institutions except in the minority institutions. It also forms the legal basis for extending reservations for the SCs, STs and OBCs in all central and prestigious professional colleges up to 49.5%.  

January 20, 2006:

Article 15(5) of the Constitution (the 104th Amendment) came into force when it received the Presidential assent.

April 5, 2006:

The HRD Minister Arjun Singh had responded to specific questions by the press after an NCERT function on April 5, when the Government planned to announce the decision to reserve a further 27 percent seats in higher educational institutions to Other Backward Classes (OBCs).
He made a reference to the Constitutional Amendment and made it clear that necessary follow-up action was under way and a decision would follow after the Assembly elections

April 26, 2006:

Medical colleges sweep roads 

Medical students came out in large numbers on Thursday to protest against the Centre's proposed move to reserve seats for backward classes in central educational institutions

May 02, 2006: 

Medical students protest against quotas 

Protests against the move to increase OBC quotas in educational institutions began in Bihar with students and interns of two medical colleges in Patna taking out rally on Tuesday.

Students of Patna Medical College and Hospital and the Nalanda Medical College and Hospital took out a protest rally from medical college campus to Kargil chowk in Patna without caring about the scorching heat.

May 30, 2006: 

Supreme Court warns striking doctors 

Expressing displeasure over the agitating medicos ignoring its appeal to call off their strike, the Supreme Court on Tuesday indicated that contempt action could be initiated against them if they continued with their protest, which had left 'patients at God's mercy.

'"Surprisingly, contrary is happening. Ultimately people waiting to get treated at hospitals are being affected," the bench observed after taking suo moto note of medical students and doctors continuing with their strike.

July 06, 2006: 

AIIMS doctors' strike leaves patients stranded 

Doctors and faculty members of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences continued to protest against the dismissal of Director Dr P Venugopal, and all services in the premier hospital, including emergency, were hit.

The 17-member apex body of the hospital, headed by Union Health Minister A Ramadoss, recommended Dr Venugopal's removal for violating the hospital's code of conduct.

July 12, 2006:

Reservation bill passed in Maharashtra Assembly 

A bill to reserve 50 per cent seats in private educational institutions for SC, ST, nomadic tribes, denotified tribes and other backward classes was passed

November 24, 2006:

Creamy layer in OBC quotas to stay: SC 

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a PIL seeking exemption of the operation of the 'creamy layer' rule within the Other Backward Classes for persons engaged in hereditary occupations

December 14, 2006:

Reservation bill passed in Lok Sabha, All parties support reservation bill 

The reservation bill, which will enable 27 percentage of seats in central educational institutions to be kept aside for students of the Other Backward Classes, was on Thursday passed in the Lok Sabha.

The Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Bill, 2006, which provides for 27 per cent reservation to OBCs, was passed by a voice vote after amendments moved by the Bharatiya Janata Party for including minority institutions in its purview was rejected.

The government promised to come up very soon with a bill providing for reservation in unaided educational institutions.

Cutting across party lines, members in the Lok Sabha on Thursday supported a bill proposing reservation for students of Other Backward Classes in central educational institutions

December 15, 2006:

Quota Bill: AIIMS docs on hunger strike 

Fifteen resident doctors of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences are on an indefinite hunger strike to protest the passage in Lok Sabha of the Bill providing 27 per cent reservation to Other Backward Classes in government-aided educational institutions. This strike went on till 19th DEC but no news about this later 

January 21, 2007:

Delhi University gearing up to implement OBC reservation

 Set to implement OBC reservation from the coming academic session, the Delhi University proposes to put in place the 27 percent quota in three phases by increasing 18 percent seats in a year.

The University administration has already forwarded the final estimate regarding the extra infrastructure and faculty requirement for each year to the University Grants Commission in order to implement the quota.

February 11, 2007:

4 AIIMS doctors move HC against reservation policy 

Challenging the decision of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences to reserve 50 percent seats in the hospital's super-speciality departments, four resident doctors from the institute have moved the Delhi High Court and sought its intervention in the matter.

Justice Kailash Gambhir issued noticed to AIIMS, Medical Council of India and the Centre on a petition filed by the doctors -- Dharmesh L Khatri, Prashant, Nidhi Moda and Pankaj Khandelwal -- and directed AIIMS not to release the appointment letters to the selected candidates for reserved category till the pendency of this case.

March 06, 2007:

SC to decide fate of quota policy on Wednesday 

The Supreme Court will decide on Wednesday the fate of the government's decision of providing 27.5 per cent reservation to OBCs seeking admission to educational institutions from the academic session 2007-2008.

A Bench, comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat and S H Kapadia, will decide whether to stay the notification granting reservation to OBCs in educational institutions till the final disposal of a batch of petitions challenging the government notification.

March 29, 2007:

Supreme Court stays OBC quota in IITs, IIMs 

In a setback to pro-reservationists, the Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the central law providing for 27 percent reservation for Other Backward Classes in elite educational institutions like IITs and IIMs. The Court held that the 1931 census could not be a determinative factor for identifying the OBCs for the purpose of providing reservation.

"...it is desirable to put on hold the OBCs reservation," a Bench comprising Justice Arijit Pasayat and Justice L S Panta said.

March 30, 2007:

TN CM wants Parliament convened over quota ruling 

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi has requested Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat and Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee to convene both Houses of Parliament to take decisions on enabling OBCs to enjoy the privilege of reservation from the coming academic year

April 24, 2007:

TN parties seek OBC quota implementation 

leaders of all political parties on Tuesday sought in the Tamil Nadu assembly for immediate measures to implement 27 per cent reservation for OBCs in elite educational institutions, even as Chief Minister M Karunanidhi warned of a country-wide pro-quota uprising.

Nationwide agitations by oppressed castes would 'erupt like a volcano' and the Centre should not give room for such a situation, Karunanidhi said replying to a discussion in the State assembly. Referring to the Supreme Court stay on reservation, he said 'a situation where two or three persons could determine the future of 100 crore people was harmful to democracy'.  

All India Anna Dravida Munnethra Kazhagam whip D Jayakumar, who initiated the discussion accused the Centre of not making wholehearted attempts to implement reservation.

"The Centre had not appointed good lawyers to fight the case on reservation", he said. Peter Alphonse of Congress said the United Progressive Alliance government was firm in implementing reservation for OBCs and expressed concern over some remarks by judges on quota.

Velmurugan said this was "...another instance of courts exceeding their jurisdiction and interfering into the legislature's powers." He said the court's action was anti-democratic as it was against majority of the people.

April 24, 2007:

THE GOVT APPROACHED A BENCH 

The government approached a bench headed by chief justice of INDIA, K.G. BALAKRISHNAN and he ordered the early hearing of 8th APR instead of the hearing scheduled in 3rd week of AUGUEST

April 24, 2007:

SC to hear quota issue on May 8 

SC to hear quota issue on 8th May Wednesday, 25 April 2007 *Accepting Govtplea, the Supreme Court has fixed 8th May to take up an application moved by the Centre seeking early hearing on the constitutional validity of the law providing 27 per cent quota for the OBCs while the suspense over IIM admissions continues

April 25, 2007:

HRD MINISTER ARJUN SINGH MEETS PM ON THE IIM ISSUE  

HRD Minister Arjun Singh and his aides went into a huddle discussing various legal options to vacate the stay imposed by the Supreme Court on 27 per cent OBC quota in elite Central educational institutions

April 26, 2007:

Human trafficking 

Human trafficking, quota to cast shadow on Parliament session. The human trafficking case and the OBC quota issue are expected to cast their shadow on the month-long second phase of Parliament's budget session beginning on Thursday.

April 26, 2007:

IIM-BANGALORE'S FOUNDER DIRECTOR HAS ASKED THE IIMs TO VOLUNTARILY ADMIT OBC STUDENTS 

With the tussle between the Supreme Court and the Centre over the 27% OBC reservations in IIMs this academic year far from being resolved, IIM-Bangalore's founder director N S Ramaswamy said that the premiere management institutes should admit OBC students voluntarily this year itself without affecting the general category seats.

''As the Supreme Court has refused to vacate the stay, IIMs should admit OBC students voluntarily. To admit 27% OBCs, only 60 more seats need to be created in each IIM, with one extra classroom in each to be built to accommodate the additional numbers. And, these classrooms can be operated in phased manner,'' said Ramaswamy, who has also communicated his views to the MHRD.

 Ramaswamy, who has been appointed as the national research professor for management also suggested that a little ''extra work'' by faculty members would solve the problem of faculty crunch. ''The required faculty can be drawn from the guest faculty, who have been already visiting the IIMs, while the internal faculty can put one hour more per week, for which they can be paid extra, over and above the salary they draw. Such a gracious gesture would be welcomed by OBC students, MHRD, SC, IIMs and common citizens of the country as well,'' suggested the expert

July 16, 2007:

CENTER APPROCHES SC FOR VACATING QUOTA STAY

The Centre on Monday moved an application before the Supreme Court seeking to vacate its order staying the implementation of 27 per cent quota for OBCs in elite educational institutions.

The application was mentioned before a bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, which decided to hear it on Tuesday.

April 10, 2008:

SC GIVES NOD TO 27% QUOTA FOR OBCs

In a major boost to reservation, the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the Constitution amendment law providing for 27 per cent quota for Other Backward Classes in IITs, IIMs and other Central educational institutions, but excluded the creamy layer from the benefit.

A five-judge Constitution bench cleared the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Act, 2006 providing for the quota, by a unanimous verdict.

The bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan excluded the creamy layer among the OBCs from the quota benefit

April 16, 2008:

SEVEN IITs TO IMPLEMENT OBC QUOTA

Seven IITs on Wednesday decided to implement 27 per cent OBC quota in phases over three years, with the institutions reserving nine per cent seats for eligible candidates in the coming academic year.

This was decided at a meeting of the directors of the IITs, which came in the wake of Supreme Court clearing the path for reserving 27 per cent seats for OBCs last week.

While nine per cent of seats will be reserved for OBC candidates this year, a similar percentage of seats will be earmarked for them in second and third years.

The IITs have also decided to increase the number of seats by 13 per cent in the next academic year to accommodate the OBC candidates.

There are at present about 4,000 seats in the seven IITs at Kharagpur, Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, Kanpur, Guwahati and Roorkee.

April 17, 2008:

CENTRE GIVES NOD TO 27% OBC QUOTA

The government has reportedly decided to go ahead with the Supreme Court verdict on the Other Backward Classes quota issue.

A meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, took the decision.The meeting was also attended by senior ministers Pranab Mukherjee, Lalu Prasad, T R Baalu, Shivraj Patil and Sushilkumar Shinde.

Human Resources Development Minister Arjun Singh briefed the committee on the pros and cons of the apex court decision, which exempted the creamy layer from the purview of the OBC quota.

April 17, 2008:

AIIMS TO IMPLEMENT OBC QUOTA THIS YEAR

The 27% quota for the Other Backward Classes will be implemented in Central government-run medical institutes over a period of two years, with 18 per cent seats reserved for students from backward castes, in this academic session.

The decision has been taken at a meeting of the heads of all institutes with Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Anbumani Ramadoss in New Delhi

April 17, 2008:

AIIMS TO IMPLEMENT OBC QUOTA THIS YEAR

The 27% quota for the Other Backward Classes will be implemented in Central government-run medical institutes over a period of two years, with 18 per cent seats reserved for students from backward castes, in this academic session.

The decision has been taken at a meeting of the heads of all institutes with Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Anbumani Ramadoss in New Delhi.

April 20, 2008:

GOVT TELLS IITs IIMs TO IMPLEMENT OBC QUOTA

the government on Sunday directed all the centrally-funded elite educational institutions, including Indian Institutes of Management and Indian Institutes of Technology, to implement the obc reservation from this year.

The Human Resource Development Ministry issued the directive to the Central Educational Institutions, after the Supreme Court on April 10 upheld the 27 per cent reservation for OBCs, excluding the creamy layer from its ambit.