Lok Sabha Question No. 226 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-09-14
Subject: Quota for EWS in non-Government and GovernmentHigher Education
Ministry: Education
Asked by: Sangamlal Kadedin Gupta, Manoj Kumar Tiwari

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 226

TO BE ANSWERED ON 14.09.2020

## Quota for EWS in non-Government and Government Higher Education

## 226. SHRI SANGAM LAL GUPTA: SHRI MANOJ TIWARI:

Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state:

(a)  whether  10  per  cent  quota  for  Economically  Weaker  Section(EWS)  in  both  20  nongovernment and government higher education institutions shall be implemented from the next academic session;

(b)  whether  most  of  the  Central  Universities  are  facing  problems  like  lack  of  space  and shortage of employees;

(c) if so, the details of the measures taken in this regard before increasing the number of seats in these Universities;

(d) whether the existing infrastructure facilities in these institutions are sufficient to meet the said purposes;

(e)  the  total  number  of  Colleges  and  Universities  in  which  the  said  quota  would  be implemented and the names of the institutions  selected  in  Delhi  and  Uttar  Pradesh  for  the same?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF EDUCATION

## (SHRI RAMESH POKHRIYAL 'NISHANK')

(a)  to  (d):  The  Government  has  passed  One  Hundred  and  Third  Amendment  in  the Constitution of India regarding implementation of 10% reservation for Economically Weaker Sections (EWSs) for admission in Central Education Institutions. Further to this, University Grants  Commission  (UGC)  issued  instructions  to  all  Central  Universities  and  Colleges thereunder and the Institutions Deemed to be Universities whose maintenance expenditure is met  by  the  UGC  for  implementation  and  compliance  of  reservation  for  the  Economically Weaker Sections (EWSs) for admission in Central Educational Institutions from the academic year 2019-20 onwards.

Accordingly, for implementation of EWSs reservation, the Government of India/Ministry of Education  allocated  an  amount  of  Rs.1436.73  crore  [OH-31  (Recurring)  Rs.230.30  crore, OH-35 (Capital) Rs.957.48 crore and OH-36 (Salary) Rs.248.95 crore] for the financial year

2019-20 and 2020-21 for Central Universities and its eligible affiliated Colleges. UGC has also conveyed the additional allocation as allocated by the Ministry of Education and released the  grants  of  Rs.152.64  Crores  [Rs.76.38  Crores  under  Recurring-31  &  Rs.76.26  Crores under Salary-36 received from  the Ministry of Education to the concerned  Central Universities for creation of infrastructure to implement EWS reservation.

(e): There is provision to implement the above mentioned quota in all the Central Universities and their affiliated eligible colleges which are funded by this Ministry. The total number of Colleges and Universities in which the said quota has been implemented is as under:-

|   Sr. No | State         | No. of Colleges                                    | No. &Name of Central Universities                                                                    |
|----------|---------------|----------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|        1 | Delhi         | 47 Delhi Colleges                                  | 2 (University of Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University)                                                 |
|        2 | Uttar Pradesh | 4 BHU Colleges 11 University of Allahabad Colleges | 3(Banaras Hindu University, University of Allahabad, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow) |

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