The Bharat Scouts and Guides of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting. The association describes its aims in its mission: Scout and Guide units are separate although they have some coeducational activities such as Jamborees, rallies, and conferences. Handicapped boys and girls also participate in the Scouting program. The Scout emblem incorporates a wheel with twenty-four spokes, known as the "Ashoka Chakra", taken from the Ashoka pillar at Sarnath, in the green-and-saffron colors of the flag of India. The association is divided in four (respective three) sections according to age: Additionally, there
Ashoka Kumar Thakur v. Union of India Ashoka Kumar Thakur v. Union of India Ashoka Kumar Thakur v. Union of India is an Indian public interest litigation case challenging the conclusion of the Mandal Commission that about 52% of the total population of India belonged to Other Backward Classes classification. The National Sample Survey Organisation had estimated the OBC segment to be 42 per cent. In April 2006, the government decided to reserve nearly 27% of seats for students from the OBC segment in institutes of higher learning in India. This would have reduced the seats for a general, unreserved candidate to about 50% (after taking into