Sinho Commission
The three-member commission, headed by Major Gen (retd) S R Sinho, was instituted by the UPA government and had submitted its report in July 2010. The Sinho Commission report of 2010, which the Centre has been citing as the basis for its legislation to grant 10 per cent reservation to the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) mainly among upper castes, never explicitly recommended a reservation for EWS but was only emphatic about ensuring that the EWS get access to all welfare schemes.
- The report noted that economic criteria cannot be the indicator for identifying backward classes for reservation and that EWS can ....
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- 2 Issue of Employment
- 3 Quota in Proportion to Population
- 4 Ninety Third Amendment
- 5 Article 15(5) of the Constitution
- 6 Rationale for SC, ST, SEdBCs Reservations
- 7 Reservation to Economically Weaker Sections: Key Issues Involved
- 8 Special Provisions for Certain Classes
- 9 The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty Fourth Amendment) Bill, 2019
- 10 Citizenship (Amendment) Bill
- 11 Emerging New Global Order and Positioning of India
- 12 Farmers’ Distress
- 13 Is India Winning the Space Race?
- 14 IPR in Agricultural Biotechnology
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