{"id":89775,"date":"2019-08-01T16:34:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T11:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=8687"},"modified":"2019-08-01T16:34:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T11:04:05","slug":"bill-for-10-quota-to-jk-economically-weaker-sections-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bill-for-10-quota-to-jk-economically-weaker-sections-approved\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill for 10% quota to J&#038;K economically weaker sections approved"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Union Cabinet has approved the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Second Amendment) Bill, 2019.<\/li><li>The bill provides up to 10% reservation for the Economically Weaker Sections(EWS) in educational institutions and public employment alongside existing reservations in the state.<\/li><li>The 10% quota Bill to economically weaker sections was introduced through the 103rd Constitution Amendment in January,2019.<\/li><li>The Constitution (103rd Amendment) Act provides for 10% reservation in government jobs and educational institutions for the economically weaker section in the unreserved category<\/li><li>The Act amends Article 15 and 16 to provide for reservation based on economic backwardness.<\/li><li>The criteria for Economically Weaker Section (EWS) includes a) annual income below Rs 8 lakh; b) agriculture land below 5 acres; c) residential house below 1,000 sq.ft; d) residential plot below 100 yards in notified municipality and residential plot below 200 yards in non-notified municipality area.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Cabinet has approved the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Second Amendment) Bill, 2019. The bill provides up to 10% reservation for the Economically Weaker Sections(EWS) in educational institutions and public employment alongside existing reservations in the state. The 10% quota Bill to economically weaker sections was introduced through the 103rd Constitution Amendment in January,2019.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bill-for-10-quota-to-jk-economically-weaker-sections-approved\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bill for 10% quota to J&#038;K economically weaker sections approved<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1234],"tags":[7169,4395,6974],"class_list":["post-89775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-current-affairs","tag-ews","tag-jammu-and-kashmir","tag-the-constitution-103rd-amendment-act","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704431940},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89775","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}