PM Modi Directly Intervened to Pause Lateral Entry Process, Remove Reservation Lacunae, Govt Sources Tell News18

The Prime Minister’s effort is to ensure social justice not just by making lateral entry into bureaucracy an institutionalised process but also by bringing in reservations, said the sources. Lateral entries during the Congress era were not consistent with the principles of social justice, and therefore, sidelined Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes, they added