TN parties oppose lower cut-off mark for EWS quota in SBI exam

Opposition parties, including DMK, on Wednesday came out against lower cut-off mark for economically weaker sections (EWS) than BCs and SC/STs in a recent SBI recruitment examination and demanded repeal of the new quota, alleging it went against social justice.

DMK president M K Stalin said the cut-off mark for the posts of junior associates in the State Bank of India was 61.25 for Backward Classes and Scheduled Castes and 53.75 for Scheduled Tribes out of 100 marks whereas the qualifying mark for EWS was only 28.5.

The SBI has conducted the preliminary exam for over 8,500 posts of junior associates in the clerical cadre.

The lower cut off mark EWS quota 'exposed' the BJP-led Centre burying social justice through the new quota regime, Stalin alleged in a Facebook post.

He demanded that the Centre scrap the 10 per cent EWS quota, alleging it shaterred the social justice ecosystem and further eroded job opportunities for BCs and SC/STs in the services to Central government and public sector enterprises.

DMK's ideological fountainhead Dravidar Kazhagam's chief K Veeramani said his outfit had warned introducing economic criterion in reservations would break up the very foundations of social justice and "this has now been proved."
Demanding scrapping of the 10 percent quota, he wanted all democratic forces to work for safeguarding social justice and throw out the Centre's "injustice against social justice, (the EWS quota)."
Condemning the bank for fixing such a cut-off structure, the Marxist party leader urged the Centre to immediately undo the "partiality."