Quota for Backward Courses and EBCs in Bihar could go as much as 43 per cent, Nitish Kumar stated (File).
Patna:
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has proposed rising reservation in authorities jobs and academic establishments for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, as nicely Different Backward Courses and Extraordinarily Backward Courses, to 65 per cent. That is excluding the centre’s 10 per cent reservation for people from Economically Weaker Sections, and can take complete reservation to 75 per cent.
The proposals will take state quotas previous the 50 per cent cap set by the Supreme Courtroom in 1992.
“We are going to do the needful after due session. It’s our intent to impact these adjustments within the present session,” the Chief Minister stated, including that the three per cent quota for OBC girls be scrapped.
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Underneath the proposed revised quotas, Scheduled Caste candidates can have 20 per cent reservation, whereas these from OBCs and EBCs will get 43 per cent quota – a major enhance from the sooner 30 per cent. Reservation of two per cent has been proposed for ST candidates.
The present reservation ranges are 18 per cent for EBCs and 12 per cent for Backward Courses, 16 per cent for Scheduled Castes, and one per cent for Scheduled Tribes.
The proposal comes hours after a full report on the contentious state-wide caste survey was tabled earlier than the Bihar Meeting, amid claims by the opposition BJP that the ruling Janata Dal(United)-Rashtriya Janata Dal duo had inflated knowledge referring to the Yadav group and Muslims.
Nitish Kumar – whose deputy, the RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav, hails from the previous group – slammed the BJP for the allegations. Earlier, Mr Yadav had demanded critics of the caste survey present proof.
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The Yadavs are the biggest OBC sub-group within the state, accounting for 14.27 per of that inhabitants.
General, in response to the Bihar caste survey, 36 per cent of the state’s 13.1 crore persons are from EBCs, 27.1 per cent are from Backward Courses, and 19.7 per cent are from Scheduled Castes. Scheduled Tribes make up 1.7 per cent of the inhabitants, and the Basic Class is 15.5 per cent.
Which means over 60 per cent of Bihar hails from Backward or Extraordinarily Backward Courses.
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Extra knowledge, launched earlier right this moment, stated 34 per cent of all households within the state survive on lower than Rs 6,000 per thirty days, and 42 per cent of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe households stay in poverty.
Additionally in response to the information, lower than six per cent of people from Scheduled Castes had completed their education; i.e., cleared Class 11 and Class 12. That quantity inches as much as 9 per cent total.
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Final month, launch of the primary tranche of caste survey knowledge was adopted by hypothesis of simply this announcement – a rise in quota for backward lessons and different marginalised communities.
The Bihar authorities’s caste survey – now a political sizzling potato after the opposition has pushed for the same, nation-wide train – started to make headlines (once more) in November final 12 months.
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This was after the Supreme Courtroom backed the centre’s 10 per cent EWS quota.
The court docket known as the quota – launched shortly earlier than the 2019 Lok Sabha election – non-discriminatory and stated it doesn’t alter the essential construction of the Structure.
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