The Supreme Court, in an interim order directed that counselling may proceed on the basis of the July 29, 2021 government notification by which 10 percent seats were reserved for Economically Weaker Section (EWS) and 27 percent for Other Backward Classes (OBC) candidates.
A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and A S Bopanna also accepted the recommendation of the Ajay Bhushan Pandey Committee to stick to the prescribed Rs 8 lakh income limit for the EWS quota for the current admission cycle.