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SHOCKING: 2 - What They Never Told You

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.

Newslaundry

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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

The Hindu

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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 Hindu

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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Ad hoc teachers at Delhi University worry about their positions going to quota posts

NEW DELHI: With appointments for permanent teaching positions currently underway across colleges in Delhi University, concerns about the conversion of existing ad hoc positions under the general category into EWS ones have been raised by many.

The Times of India

Very few schools opt for tweaked Rule 134A, only 3 takers in Gurugram

GURUGRAM: Multiple deadlines and a rechristened name failed to get schools on board to implement the government's amnesty scheme that provides free education to students from economically weaker sections (EWS) in classes 2 to 12.

Newslaundry

‘RSS’ links, ‘friends’ in high places: The trouble with IIMC’s recent recruitment of professors

In January last year, the Indian Institute of Mass Communication announced the recruitment of six associate professors and two assistant professors.

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