{"id":214103,"date":"2022-11-12T19:21:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T13:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=214103"},"modified":"2022-11-12T19:21:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T13:51:58","slug":"in-ews-verdict-a-discrimination-antithetical-to-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/in-ews-verdict-a-discrimination-antithetical-to-equality\/","title":{"rendered":"In EWS verdict, a discrimination antithetical to equality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/span><\/b>: The post is based on the article <\/span>\u201cIn EWS verdict, a discrimination antithetical to equality\u201d <\/span><\/b>published in<\/span>\u00a0The Hindu <\/b>on\u00a0<\/span>12th November 2022<\/span><\/b>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Syllabus:\u00a0<\/span><\/b>GS 2 \u2013 Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Relevance<\/span><\/b>: About India\u2019s reservation criteria.<\/span><\/p>\n

News<\/span><\/b>: The Supreme Court of India in Janhit Abhiyan vs Union of India case<\/strong> upheld the constitutional validity of granting 10% reservation to Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) of the upper castes.<\/p>\n

What are the salient features of the 103rd constitutional amendment?<\/span><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Read here:\u00a0<\/strong>103rd constitutional amendment<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
What are the Supreme Court rulings on the 103rd constitutional amendment?<\/span><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Read here:\u00a0Supreme Court, in a majority verdict, upholds constitutional validity of EWS quota<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
Can the state provide reservations and alter the reservation criteria?<\/span><\/h5>\n

The 103rd amendment provides reservation exclusively on economic grounds. The Constitution demands equality, but it does not tether Parliament to any precise version of the concept.<\/p>\n

So State could plausibly be acting within its power in deciding that a classification resting solely on economic status furthers substantive equality. Further, the inclusion of an additional layer of affirmative action does not by itself rise to the level of a basic structure violation.<\/p>\n

What will be the impact of the recent judgement?<\/h5>\n

Reservations permitted for SC, ST and OBCs are intrinsic to the guarantee of equality. This position has been regarded as an axiom of constitutional law at least since the five-judge Bench ruling in the State of Kerala vs N.M. Thomas (1975).<\/p>\n

This is because they together constitute 82% of the country\u2019s population. By reversing the existing logic of affirmative action the court opened the pandora’s box of more such reservation requests. This in the long run creates a form of discrimination that is antithetical to what equality truly demands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIn EWS verdict, a discrimination antithetical to equality\u201d published in\u00a0The Hindu on\u00a012th November 2022.\u00a0\u00a0 Syllabus:\u00a0GS 2 \u2013 Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation. Relevance: About India\u2019s reservation criteria. News: The Supreme Court of India in… Continue reading In EWS verdict, a discrimination antithetical to equality<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10498],"class_list":["post-214103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704916049},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}