By Express News Service
GUWAHATI: The Assam authorities’s choice to “keep in abeyance” the ten% quota in state authorities jobs for the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) class has met with opposition.
An “office memorandum” mentioned, “the Governor of Assam is pleased to keep the matter of reservation for Economically Weaker Sections in direct recruitment in posts and services under Government of Assam in abeyance until further order.”
This, nevertheless, shall not be relevant in these instances through which the vacancies have already been assessed and marketed. Also, the reservation for the EWS class will proceed for admission into academic establishments.
In July this 12 months, the state cabinet had determined to increase the scope of the EWS quota. The eligibility standards as regards land – 15 bighas in rural areas and one bigha in city areas – was prolonged to 30 and two bighas respectively. The concept was to cowl extra folks.
Earlier, the Supreme Court had upheld the constitutional validity of a ten% reservation for the “poorest of poor” among the many ahead castes.
The opposition events are actually furious over the Assam authorities’s newest choice. The Trinamool Congress (TMC) seen it as an affront to the apex courtroom’s ruling. “We oppose the government’s decision to keep in abeyance the 10% job quota for the EWS category,” TMC’s Assam president Ripun Bora mentioned.
He mentioned the state’s financial situation was precarious as the federal government spent extravagantly on numerous beneficiary schemes to get votes. “No matter how much Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma may try, he will not be able to hide the truth. People are no fools,” Bora mentioned.
The Congress too blamed the beneficiary schemes for it. Another opposition get together, All India United Democratic Front, seen the choice as a blow to folks belonging to the EWS class.
Assam was amongst 12 states and Union Territories which carried out 10% reservation of jobs for the EWS.
GUWAHATI: The Assam authorities’s choice to “keep in abeyance” the ten% quota in state authorities jobs for the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) class has met with opposition.
An “office memorandum” mentioned, “the Governor of Assam is pleased to keep the matter of reservation for Economically Weaker Sections in direct recruitment in posts and services under Government of Assam in abeyance until further order.”
This, nevertheless, shall not be relevant in these instances through which the vacancies have already been assessed and marketed. Also, the reservation for the EWS class will proceed for admission into academic establishments.
In July this 12 months, the state cabinet had determined to increase the scope of the EWS quota. The eligibility standards as regards land – 15 bighas in rural areas and one bigha in city areas – was prolonged to 30 and two bighas respectively. The concept was to cowl extra folks.
Earlier, the Supreme Court had upheld the constitutional validity of a ten% reservation for the “poorest of poor” among the many ahead castes.
The opposition events are actually furious over the Assam authorities’s newest choice. The Trinamool Congress (TMC) seen it as an affront to the apex courtroom’s ruling. “We oppose the government’s decision to keep in abeyance the 10% job quota for the EWS category,” TMC’s Assam president Ripun Bora mentioned.
He mentioned the state’s financial situation was precarious as the federal government spent extravagantly on numerous beneficiary schemes to get votes. “No matter how much Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma may try, he will not be able to hide the truth. People are no fools,” Bora mentioned.
The Congress too blamed the beneficiary schemes for it. Another opposition get together, All India United Democratic Front, seen the choice as a blow to folks belonging to the EWS class.
Assam was amongst 12 states and Union Territories which carried out 10% reservation of jobs for the EWS.
