10 % reservation in education to economically weaker sections of general category to be implemented from 2019-20 session
Published on January 15, 2019
The 10 per cent reservation in education to Economically Weaker Sections of general category will be implemented in 40,000 colleges and 900 universities from academic year 2019-20. Human Resource and Development Minister Prakash Javadekar made the announcement in New Delhi today.
He said this will be implemented without impacting the existing quotas for SCs, STs & OBCs. He said the Ministry, UGC, AICTE will issue orders in a week’s time for implementation of the reservation.