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EWS quota in all educational institutions
Why is it in news?
- The 10 per cent reservation for economically weaker sections among the general category will be implemented across all colleges and universities including private institutions.
- This quota will be over and above the existing quotas for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Castes which will also be implemented in private institutions.
How this quota will be given?
- This will be given in addition, by creating additional seats.
- Colleges will be asked to include this information in their prospectus.
- The UGC and AICTE will be provided the operational mandate within a week to implement the quota.
- The income criteria for the EWS quota would be set at a gross annual household income of ₹8 lakh.
- While the 93rd Constitutional Amendment enabled the provision of 27% reservation for OBCs in both public and private educational institutions the Central Educational Institutes Amendment Act of 2006 only mandated the implementation of the OBC quota in centrally-funded institutions.
- Private players in several States do not implement the OBC quota.
source
The Hindu