Tag: EWS

Several organisations representing Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC) in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday organised the ‘Adhikar Tiranga Yatra’ in Jammu to protest against the move of the Centre to include “upper castes” in the Schedule Tribe (ST) and Schedule Caste (SC) lists. Members of the OBC Mahasabha, ...

New Delhi, May17 : The majority view described reservation as “an instrument not only for inclusion of socially and educationally backward classes to the mainstream of society, but also for the inclusion of any class or section so disadvantaged”. The Supreme Court has dismissed petitions seeking review of its ...

Srinagar: The School Education Department Tuesday sought list of all private schools functioning from government land and ordered its management to compulsorily admit 25 percent of students from weaker section from their catchment areas. Director of School Education Kashmir (DSEK), in a communique to Chief Education Officers (CEOs) of ...

The Assam government has decided to keep in abeyance the 10% quota in state government jobs for applicants from Economically Weaker Sections, The Hindu reported on Friday.“The pause in the EWS job quota will not affect the posts already advertised for and reservation for the category ...

NEW DELHI: In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court on Monday upheld the constitutional validity of the quota for the economically weaker sections in a 4-1 majority on grounds that it did not violate the Constitution. The apex court pronounced its ruling while responding to a batch of pleas challenging ...

NEW DELHI, Sept 8: The Supreme Court on Thursday fixed three broad issues for adjudication arising from the pleas challenging the Centre’s decision to grant 10 per cent reservation to EWS in admissions and jobs.It will also decide whether the Constitution (One Hundred and Third Amendment) Act breached the doctrine ...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would first examine the constitutional validity of the Centre’s decision to grant 10 per cent reservation to EWS in admissions and jobs before hearing appeals against a high court verdict which had set aside a local law granting quota to ...

NEW DELHI, Aug 17: Hours after Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said that Rohingya refugees in the national capital will be shifted to flats for economically weaker section, the Union Home Ministry on Wednesday denied any such move and directed the Delhi government to ensure that “illegal foreigners” remain ...

New Delhi,: The Union Home Ministry on Wednesday denied any move to shift Rohingya Muslims in Delhi to economically weaker section (EWS) flats and directed the Delhi government to ensure the “illegal foreigners” remain in detention centres pending their extradition. The ministry’s clarification came hours after Union Minister for ...

India saw a single-day rise of 58,097 coronavirus infections, the highest in around 199 days, taking the tally of cases to 3,50,18,358, while the active cases were recorded above 2 lakh after around 81 days, according to the data updated at 8 a.m. on Wednesday. The cumulative Omicron tally ...