Are there any disadvantages to non-EWS (UR) candidates because of the reservation for EWS category?
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1st Jul, 2019
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- The EWS category refers to the Economically Weaker Section and is a subcategory consisting of people from the General Category who have an annual income less than 8,00,000 INR. These people don't belong to SC/ST/OBC categories.
- The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare recently issued a statement saying that the EWS reservation will be effective from the session 2019-20 for admissions into dental, medical, pharmacy and nursing institutes.
- The qualifying cut-off for EWS candidates is same as the non- EWS UR candidates, ie, 50 percentile.
- But seats will be reserved for them.
- Only few institutionshave been excluded from this reservation for EWS candidates.
- So in a nutshell, yes, EWS candidates do have a little bit of advantage over non-EWS candidates.
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