The panel will review the criteria determining the EWS category.It will examine approaches followed in identifying EWS category. It will analyze and recommend a new criteria to identify the EWS in the country.
The panel was formed following the Supreme Court query to the Government of India. The SC asked “On what rationale, the central government is fixing the quota eligibility at Rs. 8 lakh?” For person to be labelled under OBC (Other Backward Caste), his income limit should be less than Rs. 8 lakh per annum. This was questioned by the Supreme Court.
Article 15 (4) says that nothing shall prevent the state from making special provisions for the advancement of the socially and educationally backward classes or scheduled tribes or scheduled caste.
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