<span style="color: #222222;">Maharashtra Cabinet today approved 10% reservation in education and employment opportunities for economically weaker sections. This was informed by Maharashtra Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar in Mumbai. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Maharashtra has now become the seventh state in India to give reservation to weaker sections of general category. Gujarat was the first state to implement the 10 percent reservation recently approved by the Central government to the economically weaker section in the general category. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">After Gujarat Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Assam and Maharashtra have approved the bill to implement the reservation.</span><br />''  <br />