New 10% quota will create social equity, says PM Modi

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that the 10 per cent reservation for the economically weak sections among the general categories would usher in social equality and remove mutual distrust among various communities.

He said that capacity of seats in all educational institutions would be increased by 10 per cent to ensure that the students of other categories were not adversely affected by the new 10 per cent reservation.

The Prime Minister was addressing a gathering after inaugurating an ultra-modern super-specialty public sector hospital set up by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC).

Modi said it was the “strong political will” of the BJP government that made it possible to implement the decision to provide 10 per cent reservation on economic criteria.

“The need for quotas to the economically weak sections among the general category was being felt for long but no government had showed the political will and the courage to take it to its logical conclusion of amending the Constitution to give effect to the move. It is the strong political will of my government that made it possible,” Modi asserted.