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Activist moves SC against EWS quota

NEW DELHI: Activist Tehseen Poonawalla today moved the Supreme Court against the Centre’s decision to grant 10 per cent reservation to economically weaker section (EWS) of general category in public employment and education, including private educational institutions.

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New Delhi, January 22

Activist Tehseen Poonawalla today moved the Supreme Court against the Centre’s decision to grant 10 per cent reservation to economically weaker section (EWS) of general category in public employment and education, including private educational institutions.

The petition challenging the Constitution (103rd Amendment) Act, 2019, which paved the way for grant of reservation to EWS candidates of general category, sought quashing of the law on the ground that backwardness for the purpose of reservation cannot be defined by “economic status alone”.

The PIL was likely to come up for hearing in the next few days. This is the second petition against EWS quota law. A day after Parliament passed the Bill in this regard, NGO Youth for Equality had challenged its validity in the SC, contending it violated basic structure of the Constitution. The law talks about a maximum of 10 per cent of seats/posts in addition to the existing reservations for SCs, STs and OBCs, taking total reservation to 59 per cent, much beyond the 50 per cent ceiling fixed by the Supreme Court in the Indra Shawney case, popularly known as Mandal case. It also extends reservation to private aided and unaided educational institutions.

The Youth for Equality challenged Article 15(6) and Article 16(6) of the Constitution added by the amendment on the ground that economic criterion cannot be the sole basis for reservation and that economic reservation cannot be limited to the general category alone. — TNS

BJP rockS R’sthan House

Jaipur: Opposition MLAs on Tuesday created uproar in the Rajasthan Assembly, asking the state government to implement 10 per cent EWS quota as notified recently by the Centre. The BJP MLAs, led by Kiran Maheshwari, demanded the government to clarify its stand on the issue. OC

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