{"id":14905,"date":"2026-03-17T19:01:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=14905"},"modified":"2026-03-17T19:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:01:16","slug":"lone-seeks-review-of-ews-norms-for-jobs-admissions-reservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/lone-seeks-review-of-ews-norms-for-jobs-admissions-reservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Lone seeks review of EWS norms for Jobs, Admissions reservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Srinagar, Mar 17:\u00a0<\/strong>Citing official figures of Below Poverty Line (BPL) population in Kashmir Valley, Peoples Conference president Sajad Gani Lone has asked the J&amp;K government to reconsider the asset-based criteria under the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) category for reservation in jobs and admissions.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, Lone said that the BPL population in Kashmir exceeds that of Jammu, yet only one out of nine qualifiers in the EWS category in the recent KAS examination was from Valley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe number of souls in the Below Poverty Line Category (Antyodaya Anna Yojana + Priority Households) in Kashmir Valley exceeds that in Jammu,\u201d Lone said, citing official figures of 37.71 lakh in Kashmir compared to 29.81 lakh in Jammu.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that in response to his questions in the Assembly, the government revealed that only 7.7% and 8.6% of certificates issued under the EWS category were from Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>He said the problem lies in the criteria for granting these certificates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile almost all BPL population in Kashmir falls within the income criteria for issuing these certificates, the asset-related conditions, especially the size of the residential house and residential plot ensures exclusion of Kashmiris from the EWS category,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Citing the district-wise BPL population of Kashmir, Lone said that asset-based criteria is grave injustice with people of the Valley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is grave injustice with people of Kashmir. We have 5. 09 lakh BPL souls in Srinagar, 5. 21 lakh in Kupwara 5. 79 lakh in Baramulla and 5. 76 lakh in Anantnag,\u201d he said, adding that EWS certificates could have been a major confidence building measure for old city Srinagar, old town Baramulla, Anantnag , Budgam and\u00a0 parts of Sopore.<\/p>\n<p>Lone appealed to the Chief Minister to address the issue urgently, stating that continuing recruitment without correcting the criteria would amount to injustice. \u201cAll reservations are heavily tilted towards Jammu. This particular category is tilted towards Jammu because of government norms, not because Kashmir is rich and Jammu is poor,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He asked why Jammu &amp; Kashmir cannot do away with asset-based norms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is time to study what states like Rajasthan and Kerala have done. If they have done away with asset-related conditions, why cannot we?\u201d Lone asked<strong>\u2014(KNO)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Mar 17:\u00a0Citing official figures of Below Poverty Line (BPL) population in Kashmir Valley, Peoples Conference president Sajad Gani Lone has asked the J&amp;K government to reconsider the asset-based criteria under the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) category for reservation in jobs and admissions. In a post on X, Lone said that the BPL population in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14907,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14905\/revisions\/14907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}