

It also said that the appointing authority should verify the veracity of the income and asset certificate submitted by the candidate through the certificate issuing authority. It said that the appointment is provisional and is subject to the income and asset certificates being verified through the proper channels and if the verification reveals that the claim to belong to EWS is fake, the services will be terminated forthwith without assigning any further reasons. Subsequently, the DoPT issued detailed FaQs. The Central Information Commission in a hearing held on April 27, also directed it to take necessary action to place in the public domain FAQs on EWS reservation to assist the information seekers in future. However, it received a number of references from various Ministries, Departments and individuals for clarification of certain issues. Issuing clarifications on the issue of the EWS reservation, the Centre said that the term family will include the parents even if the beneficiary is separated from parents.Įarlier, the Department of Personnel and Training had issued guidelines providing for 10 per cent reservation to Economically Weaker Sections (EWSs), who are not covered under the reservation scheme for SCs/STs/OBCs in respect of direct recruitment in civil posts and services in the Central government.

If a person avails the benefit of 10 per cent reservation under EWS category for a job on the basis of wrong information or documents, his services will be terminated, the government has warned.
