Muslim applicants can no longer claim the 5% quota in ongoing and upcoming recruitment and admissions that relied on SBC(A) certification, forcing immediate reclassification to open/other eligible categories. Departments and institutions must stop accepting new SBC(A) Muslim certificates and adjust seat/roster calculations and merit lists where the quota was being applied. The GR also removes the administrative pathway (certificate issuance) needed to reintroduce the quota without a fresh legal/policy instrument.