HC modifies order on raising income threshold from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 5 lakh yearly to admit students under EWS quotaA bench of Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Manmeet PS Arora stayed certain directions issued by a single judge of the high court ...
Karnataka moves Muslims from OBC to EWS quota list, hands 2% hike to Lingayats & Vokkaligas ahead of crucial assembly pollsMuslims earlier came under the 2B classification. Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai told the media that the Muslims would move into the EWS q...
I oppose EWS quota as it's exclusionary: Karti Chidambaram differs with CongressThe Supreme Court on Monday had upheld by a 3-2 majority the 10 per cent quota for the EWS in educational institutions and government jobs,...
EWS quota given from 50% general category, doesn't erode SCs, STs, OBCs reservation: Centre to SCStrongly defending the 103rd constitutional amendment which provides for 10 per cent quota to the EWS, Attorney General K K Venugopal told ...
SC observes pleas challenging 10% EWS quota; Economic criteria for policies not proscribedA five-judge Constitution bench was told by several lawyers that the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) quota on the sole criteria of the f...
EWS quota breaches 50% ceiling, defeats creamy layer concept, excludes poor SC/ST, OBCs, SC toldThe quota for the Economically Weaker Sections(EWS) is a "deceitful and a backdoor attempt" to destroy the concept of reservation, a lawyer...
SC allows NEET UG, PG counselling with 27% OBC and 10% EWS quotasThe Union government urged the bench to quickly take a call as medical institutions were facing staff shortages as they fought the pandemic...
SC allows NEET-PG medical counselling with OBC, EWS quotasA bench comprising Justices D.Y. Chandrachud and A.S. Bopanna said: "We have upheld the constitutional validity of 27 percent reservation f...
SC reserves order on plea regarding EWS quota in NEET-PG admissionsThe Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its order on a plea related to the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) quota in connection with the NE...
NEET-PG admissions: Centre seeks urgent hearing of EWS quota caseA bench of justices DY Chandrachud and AS Bopanna told Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who mentioned the matter before the court on behalf ...
90-Page EWS report will be submitted in Supreme Court this weekThe committee was constituted following the intervention of the Supreme Court, which is hearing petitions challenging the government notice...
Social justice ministry panel to review EWS criteriaThe ministry of social justice and empowerment, the nodal ministry for reservation, is likely to appoint an expert committee next week.
After SC setback, Maharashtra govt extends EWS quota to MarathasAt present, a 10 per cent EWS quota is in force for those sections of the society which are not covered by any kind of reservations. The ce...
Marathas to get EWS quota benefits, but not in jobs, admissionsThe state is likely to withdraw the government resolution (GR) issued in July this year which stated that Marathas were not eligible for th...
Supreme Court stays 10% EWS quota in Maharashtra PG medical coursesA bench led by the CJI Ranjan Gogoi said that the state cannot even implement the quota at the cost of the general category seats which are...
EWS Quota: HRD seeks Rs 4,200 crore, gets Rs 2,100 croreThe Union human resource development (HRD) ministry is learnt to have sought over Rs 4200 crore for the quota implementation in centrally f...
Now, Modi govt is working to introduce 10% EWS quota in private institutesThis legislation will provide for implementation of the reservation in private educational institutes.