EWS certificates only for jobs & seats in central institutions, TN tells High Court
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai: 24.07.2020
The income/property certificate issued by tahsildars to applicants of economically weaker section (EWS) quota can be used only for central government jobs and admission to central educational institutions, Tamil Nadu government clarified on Thursday.
“Such certificates are issued with the rider as per the memorandum of the central government,” Tamil Nadu advocate-general Vijay Narayan told Madras high court on Thursday.
He made the clarification in view of a direction issued by a division bench of Justice M M Sundresh and Justice R Hemalatha as to why such a condition is imposed while issuing the certificate.
The issue pertains to a batch of pleas moved by various Brahmin and other forward caste (FC) associations challenging the state government’s circular instructing tahsildars to stop issuing the certificates.
During the course of hearing, the state submitted that the instruction was issued as the erstwhile commissioner of revenue administration decided to issue the certificates independently without consulting the government.
The government further added that the issue has been referred to a group of senior ministers to take a policy decision. On July 13, the government submitted that the state had consented to issue the certificates and that appropriate instructions had been given to the tahsildars.
Since the consent was accorded with a condition that such certificates can be used to access 10% reservation only in central government services and educational institutions, the petitioners opposed the proviso.
“As per the constitutional amendment brought in to provide EWS reservation even private institutions can decide to provide the quota at their discretion. Therefore, if the certificate is issued with such a condition it cannot be used to avail such reservation in private institutions,” advocate R Thirumalai, representing a petitioner, said.
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