The Social Justice Ministry on December 13 said the 103rd Constitutional Amendment to introduce a 10% reservation for the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) does not violate the 50% ceiling on reservation laid down by the Indra Sawhney judgment of 1992, arguing that the limit applied only to reservation for socially and educationally backward classes, the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes.
The remarks came from Minister of State for Social Justice Pratima Bhoumik, who was responding to a question from Rajya Sabha MP Subhas Chandra Bose Pilli on whether the government was planning to increase the percentage of reservation for the Other Backward Classes from 27% in the light of the Supreme Court’s judgment upholding the 103rd Amendment.
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