No proposal to alter the existing reservation scheme: Government

The Minister was responding to a question about the Centre's plans on relaxing the 50 per cent ceiling limit for reservations following the SC verdict and increasing reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) beyond 27 per cent.

No proposal to alter the existing reservation scheme: Government

Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Pratima Boumik has informed the Lok Sabha there is no proposal to alter the existing reservation scheme. A month after the Supreme Court upheld 10 per cent reservation for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) in admissions and government jobs.

The Minister was responding to a question about the Centre's plans on relaxing the 50 per cent ceiling limit for reservations following the SC verdict and increasing reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) beyond 27 per cent.

"There is no proposal to alter the existing reservation scheme," Bhoumik said. On November 7, the Supreme Court had upheld the 10 per cent reservation introduced in 2019 for EWS in admissions and government jobs that excluded the poor among the Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Other Backward Caste (OBC) categories, saying it is not discriminatory or violative of any essential feature of the Constitution.

"Treating EWS as a separate category is a reasonable classification and the 50 per cent ceiling on the total reservation under the Mandal judgment is not inflexible", the court said while dismissing petitions challenging the validity of the law.

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