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Kev Nair Books on English Fluency

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Here is another release from famous writer on English fluency, Prof. Kev Nair. The book titled ‘The Complete Fluency Words’ of Kev Nair was released recently at Kochin. This is a comprehensive and enlarged edition on English Word Power Builder. Prof. Kev Nair is the author of more than 30 books on English fluency and his acclaimed spiritual book is ‘The Bhagavad Gita of Inner Courage’. The Complete Fluency Words book now covers 7673 words of general utility and discusses in depth how on can achieve mastery of these words and speak and write good English.

The book is published by a Kochi based printers and is priced at Rs. 395. The details of the book and online purchase available at www.fluencybookz.com . There are several other book by Prof Nair on English language fluency, Thesaurus and Dictionaries. These can be obtained from the website mentioned above. Following is the list of other famous books of Prof Kev Nair:

1) The Complete Fluency Words
2) A Dictionary of Fluency Word Clusters
3) A Dictionary of Essential Fluency Phrases
4) A Dictionary of Active Fluency Combinations
5) Comprehensive Adjectival Fluency Dictionary
6) Narrative Fluency Dictionary
7) Core Fluency Thesaurus
8) Thesaurus of Phrasal Verbs
9) Thesaurus of Descriptive English
10) Thesaurus of Fluent English Adjectives.

You can purchase them online through www.fluencybookz.com . You can also download a free sample book ‘How to pick up fluency in English thro’ self – study’. The PDF document format of the book is available for free at http://www.fluentzy.com/downloads/handbook.pdf .

Minority Quota Reservation Seats in IITs, IIMs, NITs and Central Universities

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Ministry of Human Resources Development, Govt. of India has issued Gazette notification providing 4.5 reservations for minority communities within the OBC quota of 27 percent. With this minority communities such as Muslims, Sikhs, Parsis, Jains, Buddhists etc will get 4.5 percent reservations in educational institutions and government employment opportunities. The gazette will come into force from 1st January 2012.

After this provision, seats in all India level institutions for Minority candidates will be reserved as per the stipulated percentage. The number of seats they are going to get are as follows. The number of seats may increase if the total intake has gone up at any time:

1) IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology): 120 seats
2) IIMs (Indian Institutes of Management)
3) NITs (National Institutions of Technology): 4.5 percent of total quota reserved for OBCs
4) 40 Central Universities: 4.5 percent seats in 27 percent reserved for OBCc
5) National Institute of Design (NID): 4.5 percent within allotted 27 percent seats for OBCs.

The Government of India has allowed educational institutions to implement OBC reservation quota within five years after the notification. This five year term will end by the next year (2012) and all the institutions will have to implement the quota as per the rules of the law.