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Why 10% quota for ‘economically weak’ in India has caused uproar

Controversy over 10 percent quota in jobs and education given to so-called Economically Weaker Sections category.

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The top court upheld a quota for non-quota applicants

It’s a significant step in India’s quota policy that leaves us wondering if reservations are forever

Livemint

Economic weakness is a tricky basis for a quota

Criteria drawn from financial status are so arbitrary and unstable in a dynamic economy with high inflation that policy benefits can’t be aimed properly. This yields its own confusion

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‘Welcome’ but ‘leaves discomfort in its wake’: Split verdict among newspaper edits on EWS quota

The Supreme Court yesterday upheld the validity of the 103rd constitutional amendment that provides 10 percent reservation in admissions and government jobs to economically weaker sections.

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EWS reservation: Know eligibility and benefits in detail

Supreme Court on Monday upheld the EWS quota implemented by the government in 2019. Know all about the eligibility and benefits of EWS quota

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SC Upholds Validity Of 103rd Constitution Amendment Providing 10 Per Cent Reservation To EWS

The Supreme Court, by a majority view of 3:2, on Monday upheld the validity of the 103rd Constitution amendment providing 10 per cent reservation to people belonging to economically weaker sections (EWS) in admissions and government jobs. Read more on Dynamite News:

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SC to announce its verdict on 10% EWS quota validity tomorrow

A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Uday Umesh Lalit would deliver the verdict in the matter, according to the cause list of November 7 uploaded on the apex court website.

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EWS quota will not impact number of seats for general, reserved categories

The Central government told the Supreme Court that the decision to grant 10% EWS quota in admissions will not impact the availability of seats for the general and reserved categories as additional seats will be added to higher educational institutions

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SC reserves order on pleas challenging Centre's 10% EWS quota

Petitions have challenged validity of Constitutional Amendment which provides 10% reservation to economically weaker sections

The Hindu

Morning Digest | Ukraine conflict of ‘profound concern’, Jaishankar tells UNSC; Supreme Court questions logic behind EWS quota, and more

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EWS quota claims to be for poorest of poor, but denies most deprived: Supreme Court

50% limit on reservation not inviolable, says govt.

The Hindu

Will EWS quota cut share of pie of those competing on merit, asks CJI

‘The 50% seats, jobs available in the general category are open to all’

The Hindu

EWS quota does not erode rights of scheduled communities, OBCs: Centre tells Supreme Court

So far as the SCs and STs are concerned, they have been loaded with benefits by way of affirmative actions, K.K. Venugopal says

The Hindu

Delhi government hospital ‘forcing’ EWS patients to pay for dialysis?

On September 14, Jitendra Pal Singh, 32, a kidney patient in Delhi’s Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, was allegedly told to sign an undertaking by the hospital authorities.

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Arbitrary and exclusionary: On EWS quota

Even if EWS quota is upheld, eligibility will have to be properly defined

The Hindu

What’s wrong in using economic criteria for reservation, asks Supreme Court

103rd Amendment, by excluding Backward Classes from the EWS quota, betrays intent to serve as a quota for middle class members of the forward castes, argue petitioners

The Hindu

EWS quota an affront to equal society, say petitioners

It stops people from freeing themselves from shackles of caste and religion, say petitioners in Supreme Court

The Hindu

EWS quota | 103rd amendment was a fraud on Constitution, petitioners tell Supreme Court

During the argument in Supreme Court, lawyer says reservation cannot be implemented as poverty alleviation programme

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Society for the Rights of Backward Communities demands to declare EWS quota unconstitutional

V. Rathinasabapathy, President of SFRBC, told the presspersons that the Supreme Court in its earlier Orders has said that reservation cannot be interpreted as a poverty alleviation measure.

The Hindu

Supreme Court fixes three key questions for examining EWS quota

The three issues include whether the amendment breaches the Basic Structure by permitting the State to make special provisions, including reservation, based on economic criteria.

The Hindu

Does EWS quota violate Basic Structure? Constitution Bench asks Union, States, parties to ‘crystallise’ their thoughts by Thursday

Economic reservation was introduced in the Constitution by amending Articles 15 and 16 and adding clauses empowering the State governments to provide reservation on the basis of economic backwardness

The Hindu

Explained | What is India’s policy on the Rohingya?

Can refugees who feel threatened in their home nation be deported? What are the government’s obligations?

The Hindu

Kejriwal distributing freebies to Rohingyas, ready to compromise on national security, alleges BJP

The BJP and the AAP have been engaged in a war of words on the issue of shifting Rohingya Muslims to flats

The Hindu

No 10% Economically Weaker Sections quota this year too in Karnataka

The State Cabinet resolved to implement EWS quota in education and employment in July 2021, but the govt. is yet to frame rules

The Times of India

Supreme Court stays Delhi HC order asking AAP govt to try to clear backlog of unfilled EWS seats in pvt schools

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed a Delhi High Court order directing the AAP government to try and clear the backlog of unfilled EWS seats in private schools in the next five years.

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