Students protest in India over new amendment for 'backward classes' caste reservation system

The Anti-reservation protests 2006, currently taking place all over India, are in opposition to the 93rd Constitutional Amendment passed in the Parliament of India, which allows the government to make special provisions for "advancement of any socially and educationally backward classes of citizens", including their admission in aided or unaided private educational institutions.

In the year 2005, based on the recommendations of an independent political panel[citation needed], the Union government of India (the multiparty coalition United Progressive Alliance led by the Congress Party, under the Prime Ministership of Dr. Manmohan Singh) proposed to reserve 27% of seats in the the All India Institute of Medical Studies (AIIMS), Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), and other central institutions of higher education, for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in order to help them gain higher levels of representation in these institutions. This move is considered to discriminate on the basis of caste and has led to massive anti-reservation protests throughout India.