The Bihar Cabinet has approved the formation of a Bihar Youth Commission and granted 35% reservation to native women of Bihar in direct recruitment to government posts. Read below for details.

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Patna (Bihar) [India], March 8 (ANI): On the occasion of International Women's Day, Bihar Janata Dal-United (JDU) leader Vijay Kumar Choudhary on Saturday extended his best wishes to all women in ...

Congress's initiative to distribute sanitary pads with Rahul Gandhi's image in Bihar sparked controversy, drawing criticism from NDA leaders who deemed it an insult to women. The scheme, aimed at ...

New Delhi: Congress party’s unique women-centric initiative and public outreach via sanitary pads has sparked controversy in the poll-bound Bihar, with political parties reacting sharply to what ...

With the Bihar Assembly elections scheduled for October–November 2025, political parties are targeting women voters, who constitute nearly half of the state's 7.64 crore electorate. Women ...

The decision, taken at a cabinet meeting chaired by the chief minister, effectively bars women from outside Bihar from availing the previously open 35% quota. Earlier, the reservation was accessible ...

But by 2023â 24, over 83 per cent of women were self-employed, while only 4.8 per cent had regular wage jobs, and 11.7 per cent were casual workers. However, women in Bihar continue to face a big ...

The Bihar cabinet on Tuesday decided that the existing 35% quota for women in government jobs will now be restricted to only permanent residents of the state, with the decision just months ahead ...

The Bihar Cabinet on Tuesday made domicile status mandatory for candidates seeking to access the 35% reservation granted to women in state government jobs, reported The Indian Express.

The RJD is the Congress party's alliance partner in the INDIA bloc in Bihar. An insult of women of Bihar with Rahul Gandhi's picture on sanitary pad! Congress is an Anti-Women party!

Bihar polls: The new policy marks a significant amendment to the 2016 Cabinet decision, which had originally provided 35% horizontal reservation for women in all state government services ...