EWS can’t seek age relaxation, enhanced attempts like SC,ST, OBC: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has held that aspirants belonging to the economically weaker section (EWS) cannot claim parity with the Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), and Other Backward Classes (OBC) categories for seeking age relaxation or enhanced attempts in relation to direct recruitment or employment under the central government.

A Bench of Justices Anil Kshetarpal and Amit Mahajan observed that the deprivation faced by EWS individuals was not comparable to caste-based discrimination, and the policy not to extend age and attempt relaxation to the EWS category was not “mala fide, arbitrary or unconstitutional” merely because it accorded different relaxations to different reserved categories.