10% quota for general category poor from upcoming 2019-20 session

Government and private schools need to increase seat count by 25%

The recently introduced 10 per cent reservation for students from economically weaker sections (EWS) will be effective from the upcoming 2019-20 session. The quota, applicable to both government and private educational institutions, will be effective in all 40,000 colleges under 900 universities in the country, human resource development minister Prakash Javadekar said on Tuesday.
 
Since the newly introduced quota will be over and above the existing 49.5 per cent for schedule castes, schedule tribes and other backward class students and seats allotted to general category students, all institutions are required to increase their total seat count by 25 per