Uttrakhand Govt. Implements 10% EWS Quota in Colleges

After months of implementing the EWS or Economically Weaker Sections Reservation Quota in Govt. jobs, the Uttarakhand Government has finally introduced the 10% EWS reservation quota in the state-run Government Universities as well as Colleges.

Anand Bardhan, the Principal Secretary of Higher Education from the state of Uttarakhand had released an order, instructing the inclusion of the 10% EWS reservation quota at the Government-run higher educational institutions. The step comes as a reply to the directive that had been sent by the Ministry of Human Resource Development. Bardhan had sent the order to the registrars of all the Government-run Universities and colleges and ordered them to implement the changes.

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Like all the other states, Uttarakhand has reacted positively to the implementation of the EWS quota in Government jobs and educational institutions. All the government organisations have been directed to implement the order. After the EWS Bill had been passed at the beginning of the year, the Uttarakhand Government had already begun the process of implementing the order in the government workplaces. However, as per the orders of the Central government, rather the MHRD, Uttarakhand will now also offer the 10% quota in the higher educational institutions as well.

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With the implementation of the quota in the higher educational institutions, the students belonging to the Economically Weaker Sections will now be able to take admissions in almost 6 State Government-run Universities, more than a 100 different degree colleges as well as 15 government-aided degree colleges. Admissions to all these colleges will now be easier for students under the unreserved category belonging to the economically weaker sections.