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In a landmark decision, the Odisha authorities connected Saturday (April 4, 2026) enhanced the preservation for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students and introduced a quota for the Socially and Economically Backward Classes (SEBC) successful aesculapian and method education.
The determination was taken astatine the furniture gathering chaired by Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi successful Bhubaneswar.
"While the quota for the ST students is raised from 12% to 22.50%, it has been enhanced from 8% to 16.25% for SCs. The authorities authorities has introduced an 11.25% quota for OBC students, who are known arsenic SEBC successful Odisha," Mr. Majhi told reporters aft the meeting.
He said this caller preservation strategy volition beryllium implemented crossed universities, their affiliated colleges and acquisition institutions, ITIs and polytechnics successful the authorities successful the fields of engineering, technology, management, machine applications, medicine, surgery, dental, nursing, pharmacy, allied wellness sciences, psychiatry, ayurveda, homeopathy, agriculture and allied sciences, architecture, readying and cinematic arts.
This caller preservation strategy volition besides beryllium implemented successful awarding certificates, diplomas and degrees astatine the undergraduate and postgraduate levels successful immoderate different courses notified by the State authorities from clip to time, a papers released by the Chief Minister's Office (CMO) said.
Mr. Majhi pointed retired that adjacent though the ST colonisation successful the State is much than 22%, for a agelong time, the preservation for them successful technical, professional, aesculapian and allied courses was lone 12%. "Therefore, we person raised it according to their proportionality successful the population," the Chief Minister said.
He clarified that of the State's full 2,421 undergraduate and postgraduate aesculapian seats, ST students could unafraid lone 290 seats, based connected the 12% quota. However, aft raising their quota to 22.5%, 545 ST students volition present beryllium capable to unafraid aesculapian seats.
Similarly, determination are much than 17% SCs successful the State, but lone 8% preservation for them. Earlier, lone 193 SC students could get seats nether the reserved category. Now, the fig of quota seats volition summation to 393.
Of the full 44,579 engineering seats successful the State, the fig for STs volition summation from 5,349 to 10,030. It volition summation from 3,566 to 7,244 for SCs and for the archetypal time, 515 seats volition beryllium reserved for SEBC students. Earlier, the fig of reserved seats for SEBC students was zero, Mr. Majhi said.
"This measurement of ours volition beryllium a beardown means towards gathering a prosperous Odisha," helium said.
In different large decision, the CM said, Odisha volition present a caller strategy — 'Mukhyamantri Annapurna Yojana' — for the fiscal twelvemonth 2026-27 nether which beneficiaries volition beryllium provided with an further 5 kg of atom each period escaped of cost.
"The State authorities has decided to administer the further atom quota to the beneficiaries nether the 'National Food Security Act' (NFSA) and 'State Food Security Scheme' (SFSS) done a caller strategy 'Mukhyamantri Annapurna Yojana' for the fiscal twelvemonth 2026-27," helium said.
Currently, 3,22,89,692 members of 97,97,572 families successful the State are benefiting from the National Food Security Act, portion 5,62,737 members of 2,98,725 families are benefiting from the State Food Security Scheme. All these beneficiaries volition present get the benefits of the caller scheme.
The furniture besides approved 14 different proposals of antithetic departments.
