Karnataka government to issue notification soon on increasing reservation of SCs and STs
The Hindu
A special Cabinet meeting chaired by CM Bommai decided to implement the Nagmohan Das Committee report on reservation in toto
The Karnataka Government will issue a notification in 2-3 days on increasing the reservation for Scheduled Castes from 15% to 17%, and for Scheduled Tribes from 3% to 7%.
Briefing presspersons after a special State Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister J.C. Madhuswamy said the Cabinet has decided to implement the entire report of a committee headed by retired High Court judge H N Nagmohan Das which recommended increasing reservation for SCs from 15% to 17%, and for STs from 3% to 7%.
The Minister said the Government Order on increasing the reservation for SCs and STs would be issued in 2-3 days. “Today’s Cabinet meeting has taken the decision to implement the Nagamohan Das Commission report in toto. We are going to issue a government order. The modalities and details on how to go about it and its implementation will be given in the government order.”
The hike in reservation would benefit 103 communities in the SCs and 56 communities in the STs.
To a question regarding the possibility of reducing the quota of other communities such as general category and OBCs, Mr. Madhuswamy said “Whenever you have reservation, we are there to eat somebody’s benefit. But we have to safeguard the interests of the downtrodden and underprivileged, who have suffered for a long time and have had no scope of competing with the creamy layer of the society”.
An all-party meeting convened by the ruling BJP government on Friday reached a consensus on increasing reservation for SCs and STs.
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