{"id":308508,"date":"2019-01-25T06:35:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T06:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308508"},"modified":"2019-01-25T06:35:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T06:35:50","slug":"supreme-court-to-examine-validity-of-10-ews-quota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/supreme-court-to-examine-validity-of-10-ews-quota\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court to examine validity of 10% EWS quota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-305446 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"549\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-633x420.jpg 633w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Centre on pleas challenging the Constitutional Amendment that gives 10 per cent quota for the economically weak in jobs and education of the general category. The top court said, it will examine the validity of bill. However, it refused to stay implementation of 10 per cent quota.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The apex court was hearing a batch of petitions, which claimed that the 10% upper caste reservation is unconstitutional.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The top Court has demanded an answer from the Centre within four weeks on the move that was introduced and passed in parliament in a matter of days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The pleas said that the amendment violates the 9-bench\u00a0Supreme\u00a0Court&#8217;s 1992 Mandal commission verdict.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Centre on pleas challenging the Constitutional Amendment that gives 10 per cent quota for the economically weak in jobs and education of the general category. The top court said, it will examine the validity of bill. However, it refused to stay implementation of 10 per cent quota. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[10687,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308509,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308508\/revisions\/308509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}