Age limit for EWS employment under Central legislation enhanced
The Hindu
People with annual gross income below ₹ 8 lakh to be identified for economic reservation
The upper age limit for employment, to be extended by the State government to economically weaker sections (EWS) under a Central legislation, has been enhanced by five years. This was decided at the Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday. On 7 January 2019, the Centre had approved a ten per cent reservation in government jobs and educational institutions for the EWS in the general category. This would be over and above the existing 50 per cent reservation for SC/ST/OBC categories extended by the State governments. The Centre also said people who had an annual gross income below ₹ 8 lakh should be identified for economic reservation. It had also informed the Supreme Court that it would be the State’s prerogative to provide ten per cent economic reservation in government jobs and admissions to educational institutions. In tune with the legislation, the Cabinet on Sunday passed a resolution sticking to the ₹ 8 lakh norm for eligibility to reservations in employment and education. The age limit was also hiked by five years.“We are judges and therefore, cannot act like Mughals of a bygone era ... the writ courts in the guise of doing justice cannot transcend the barriers of law,” the High Court of Karnataka observed while setting aside an order of a single judge, who in 2016 had extended the lease of a public premises allotted to a physically challenged person to 20 years contrary to 12-year period stipulated in the law.
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