Reservation Hatao Andolan official in Indore

Indore district · Madhya Pradesh · India's cleanest city and MP's commercial capital

Indore has been ranked India's cleanest city in the Swachh Survekshan for multiple consecutive years and is the state's commercial and education hub. It hosts both an IIT and an IIM, an unusual combination.

Why Indore matters to the reform argument

Indore's student population is drawn statewide, so its coaching belt reflects MP's whole recruitment pipeline in one place.

Institutions

  • IIT Indore
  • IIM Indore
  • Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya
  • MGM Medical College

Localities

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State policy context · Madhya Pradesh

MP raised OBC reservation from 14% to 27% in 2019, taking total reservation past 50%; the increase has been under challenge in the High Court and Supreme Court since. The state was also the site of the Vyapam examination scandal, one of the largest recruitment-fraud cases in Indian history.

  • MPPSC
  • MP Employees Selection Board (ESB, formerly Vyapam)
  • MP Board of Secondary Education
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