[Marxistindia] Review Widespread Concerns on EWS

[news from the cpi(m)]

November 9, 2022

Press Statement

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the
following statement:

 

Review Widespread Concerns on EWS

The CPI(M) shares the widespread concern over the split judgement of the
Supreme Court on reservation for Economically Weaker Sections. The CPI(M) is
not opposed to reservation for EWS in education and jobs, per se. But the
Supreme Court order raises certain major questions which need to addressed.

CPI(M) has always questioned the criteria to define EWS. The eligibility for
accessing reservation to EWS quota has fixed a ceiling of almost Rs. 8 lakh
per annuam and 5 acres of agricultural land, a residential flat of 1000
square feet and a residential plot of 100 square yards in a notified
municipality. With the minimum wage and tax free ceiling pegged at a much
lower level, these criteria will allow a large population who are not really
poor and destitute to access the benefits of this reservation. In effect,
this discriminates against the poorest of the poor. It is, therefore,
imperative for the government to include this concern in its policy of
reservation of EWS.

 

Muralidharan

[For CPI(M) Central Committee Office]

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://cpim.org/pipermail/marxistindia_cpim.org/attachments/20221109/184b8022/attachment.html>