HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar had recently announced that 10 percent EWS quota will be applicable to government as well as private institutions.
In previous editions of this podcast, we had discussed the difference between caste-based and economic backwardness-based reservations. We had also spoken about the timing of this announcement and its political implications.
However, in today’s podcast, we talk about the implementation of the EWS quota in private institutions, which have so far been outside the ambit of reservations, and the skewed student-teacher ratio in public universities. Tune in!