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NEW DELHI: Upending past signifier successful the Civil Service Examinations (CSE), candidates of different backward classes (OBC) trumped those from economically weaker sections (EWS) successful the last merit database for 2025, contempt trailing successful the interrogation round.The last 2025 cut-off (Mains + interview) for EWS is 926 portion that for OBCs is 931. The cut-off successful the Mains exams unsocial was 706 for EWS and 717 for OBCs. Cut-off marks are the minimum qualifying people for a societal bloc availing of quota, and they alteration crossed SC, ST, OBC, and EWS categories. The last scores marked a reversal of a inclination wherever EWS had been finishing up of OBC quota beneficiaries owed to higher scores successful the interrogation round.
That OBCs should this twelvemonth not lone trump EWS, but bash truthful contempt continuing weaker show astatine the interrogation signifier suggests an absorbing development.‘OBCs’ precocious written scores effect successful amended cut-off than that of EWS’Shashank Ratnoo, an advocator specialising successful issues concerning OBCs and reservation, said, “Despite a definite resistance successful OBCs’ marks successful interviews, their marks successful written exams were truthful precocious that it has resulted successful amended last cut-off than that of Economically Weaker Section.”
The EWS quota was carved retired successful 2019 to supply 10% preservation to financially weaker individuals among the ‘general’ communities, portion the Mandal quotas for backwards has been successful cognition since 1995.In 2023 and 2024, Economically Weaker Section trailed the backward classes successful the Mains examinations. But the dynamic of competitiveness betwixt the 2 reserved categories proved complex, arsenic the forwards prevailed successful the eventual trial by virtuousness of greater people successful interviews.In CSE-2024, the cut-off for EWS successful the Mains exams was 696 marks arsenic compared to 702 for OBCs. But successful the last results aft the interview, EWS had a cut-off merit of 917 marks, against 910 for OBCs.The twelvemonth earlier that, successful the Mains part, OBCs scored a cut-off of 712 arsenic compared to 706 for EWS. But successful the final, OBCs trailed with a cut-off of 919 to EWS which had 923 arsenic the minimum marks.Shashank Ratnoo said, “Higher interrogation marks for EWS successful specified a abbreviated clip of instauration of its preservation raises a question people implicit the need, percent and strictness of the criteria for this category.”Interestingly, the opposition successful the merit database for OBCs and EWS successful the CSEs has been a see-saw. In the aftermath of the caller EWS quotas introduced successful 2019, OBCs dominated the Mains and the last some successful 2019 and 2020.While it was astonishing that EWS, which has groups with little societal handicaps, trailed down OBCs, it was seen arsenic teething troubles of a caller quota regime, with the wider eligible umbrella unaware of its procedures and criteria. Later, EWS overhauled the spread with OBCs and came to people higher successful the examinations.
