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"Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries?
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1. Quota system: Beginning of the end for IITs and IIMs Bhamy V Shenoy, Gulf Times, May 26, 2006--------------------------------------
2. Meeting the challenge of Mandal II, Satish Deshpande & Yogendra Yadav, Hindu...