Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s authorities tabled the quota modification invoice yesterday (File).
Patna:
The Bihar Meeting on Thursday unanimously handed a invoice to extend reservations for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Different Backward Courses, and Extraordinarily Backward Courses in state jobs and academic establishments to 65 per cent. That is nicely previous the Supreme Court’s 50 per cent cap.
The amended invoice will now must be signed off by Governor Rajendra Arlekar earlier than it’s legislation.
The amendments had been handed amid ruckus inside and out of doors the Bihar Meeting – over Chief Minister Nitish Kumar‘s comment this week on ladies’s schooling and inhabitants management.
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Underneath the revised quotas, Scheduled Caste candidates can have 20 per cent reservation, whereas these from OBCs and EBCs will get 18 and 25 per cent – a major enhance from the sooner (mixed) 30 per cent. Reservation of two per cent has been proposed for ST candidates.
At current there’s 18 per cent reservation for EBCs and 12 per cent for Backward Courses, 16 per cent for Scheduled Castes, and one per cent for Scheduled Tribes.
The present three per cent reservation for ladies from backward lessons has been scrapped.
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The amended invoice excludes the central authorities’s obligatory 10 per cent reservation for people from Economically Weaker Sections, and can take complete quotas to 75 per cent.
Nitish Kumar had proposed the modification on Tuesday, hours after his authorities tabled the complete report of the contentious state-wide caste survey. The report stated 36 per cent of the Bihar’s 13.1 crore individuals are from EBCs and 27.1 per cent are from Backward Courses.
READ | Bihar Caste Survey: 27% Backward Classes, 36% Extremely Backward Classes
Of the remaining, 19.7 per cent are from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 1.7 per cent of the inhabitants. The Basic Class accounts for 15.5 per cent of the inhabitants, the report stated.
Which means over 60 per cent of Bihar hails from OBCs or EBCs.
Information from the survey was introduced amid BJP claims that knowledge about inhabitants of the Yadav – to which Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav belongs – and Muslim communities was manipulated.
The Yadav group, which is able to profit from 18 per cent reservation for OBC teams, is the biggest sub-group, accounting for 14.27 per cent of the class.
The report additionally stated that 42 per cent of all Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe households dwell in poverty, and that 34 per cent of all households within the state survive on lower than Rs 6,000 per 30 days.
Additionally in line with the information, lower than six per cent of people from Scheduled Castes had completed their education; i.e., cleared Class 11 and Class 12.
The report was initially criticised by the BJP; in a pointy response hours after knowledge was launched, Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused the opposition of “attempting to divide the nation within the title of caste”.
READ | “Trying To Divide Country…”: PM After Bihar Releases Caste Survey Report
Final week, although, Union Dwelling Minister Amit Shah declared the BJP stays open to the concept of a nation-wide caste census, as long as due diligence is completed.
READ | Caste Census Takes Centre Stage With Amit Shah Saying BJP Never Opposed It
The information – coming months earlier than subsequent yr’s Lok Sabha ballot – underlines the electoral importance of OBCs and marginalised communities – each for the BJP, which has opposed requires a nationwide caste census, and the opposition, which has been more and more increasingly vocal on the topic.
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