Govt's bill calls for reservation for EWS in pvt institutes too: updates

The 'special provisions' in the bill would relate to 'their admission to govt, private educational institutions, other than the minority educational institutions'

In a major move coming weeks before the country goes into election mode, the Narendra Modi-led government introduced a bill in Lok Sabha that seeks to amend the Constitution to provide 10 per cent reservation in jobs and educational institutions to economically backward section in the general category. 

According to the Bill, "At present, the economically weaker sections of citizens have largely remained excluded from attending the higher educational institutions and public employment on account of their financial incapacity to compete with the persons who are economically more privileged." The Bill seeks to amend Article 15 of the Constitution, by