HYDERABAD: One-and-a-half years after the Centre announced 10% quota for the economically weaker sections (EWS), the Telangana government has decided to implement the same in the state educational institutions and job recruitments.
Sources in the government said the 10% quota would be implemented by introducing supernumerary seats and vacancies. This means, if an institute has 100 seats, the number will be increased to 110 for implementing the 10% quota for EWS. With this, the existing 50% reservations for various categories and general seats will remain unchanged.
“The BC welfare department has sent a proposal a couple of weeks ago to the government for implementing the quota in the state-run educational institutions and recruitments from this year. Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will take a call on this and cabinet will give its nod,” a senior official of the department told STOI.
The Centre introduced 10% quota in January 2019 and some states like Gujarat began implementing it immediately. The TRS government, however, put it on hold as it did not want the BJP to gain electoral advantage in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. The quota implementation was deferred further due to elections to zilla parishads, gram panchayats, Huzurnagar assembly bypoll and municipal elections.
Impending call
Quota not implemented last yr due to elections
In the last academic year, the government could not implement the quota due to series of elections. The new academic year is expected to begin on September 1 and the government will take a call before that,” a CMO official said.
While the health and family welfare department had implemented 10% reservations in government medical and dental colleges, the quota, however, was not introduced in other institutions offering professional courses like engineering, pharmacy and management.
Students, job aspirants and BJP have been demanding that the quota be implemented immediately, while some BC organisations have expressed fears that it would deprive BCs from getting the benefit of reservations.
As per the Centre’s guidelines, a person having an annual income up to Rs 8 lakh or owning five acres of agriculture land or 1,000 square feet property in urban areas and 200 square yards of land in rural areas meet the criteria to claim the quota benefit.
Sources in the government said the 10% quota would be implemented by introducing supernumerary seats and vacancies. This means, if an institute has 100 seats, the number will be increased to 110 for implementing the 10% quota for EWS. With this, the existing 50% reservations for various categories and general seats will remain unchanged.
“The BC welfare department has sent a proposal a couple of weeks ago to the government for implementing the quota in the state-run educational institutions and recruitments from this year. Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will take a call on this and cabinet will give its nod,” a senior official of the department told STOI.
The Centre introduced 10% quota in January 2019 and some states like Gujarat began implementing it immediately. The TRS government, however, put it on hold as it did not want the BJP to gain electoral advantage in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. The quota implementation was deferred further due to elections to zilla parishads, gram panchayats, Huzurnagar assembly bypoll and municipal elections.
Impending call
Quota not implemented last yr due to elections
In the last academic year, the government could not implement the quota due to series of elections. The new academic year is expected to begin on September 1 and the government will take a call before that,” a CMO official said.
While the health and family welfare department had implemented 10% reservations in government medical and dental colleges, the quota, however, was not introduced in other institutions offering professional courses like engineering, pharmacy and management.
Students, job aspirants and BJP have been demanding that the quota be implemented immediately, while some BC organisations have expressed fears that it would deprive BCs from getting the benefit of reservations.
As per the Centre’s guidelines, a person having an annual income up to Rs 8 lakh or owning five acres of agriculture land or 1,000 square feet property in urban areas and 200 square yards of land in rural areas meet the criteria to claim the quota benefit.
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