SC agrees to hear plea against revoke of 4 per cent Muslim quota in Karnataka
India | April 13, 2023 13:12 ISTBJP government led by Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, recently, decided to scrap the four per cent reservation for Muslims in Karnataka.
BJP government led by Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, recently, decided to scrap the four per cent reservation for Muslims in Karnataka.
Assembly poll in Karnataka will be held in a single phase on May 10 and the results are scheduled for May 13, the Election Commission announced on Wednesday.
It is now clear that Modi government’s offensive against corruption will continue, irrespective of many parties coming together to oppose it. Modi said, anti-corruption campaign has shaken the roots of some corrupt politicians.
Agitating members of the Banjara community targeted Yediyurappa's house and resorted to stone-pelting in which some cops were also injured. The protest was against the internal reservation for the Scheduled Castes (SCs) announced by the state government.
Lingayat Reservation Row: At present, the 'Most Backward' class falls in category 1 while those 'Moderately Backward' falls in category 2A and 2B and 'Backward' in 3A and 3B.
Jharkhand reservation bill: The bill also proposed that the state will urge the Centre to amend the Constitution's Ninth Schedule. The bill was passed amid protests by MLAs of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
MP Congress claimed that OBC seats had reduced by 60 per cent (compared to previous polls of 2014-15) this time. The official handle of the party claimed that the district panchayat member posts had come down by 61 per cent and in 13 districts, OBC quota had become nil.
Defending its policy, the government said that representation of SCs/STs in jobs is inadequate and contended that grant of reservation does not in any manner hamper the administration.
A bench comprising Justices L Nageswara Rao and B R Gavai upheld the Madras High Court order which had quashed the reservation.
The Haryana government had last year enacted the Haryana State Employment of Local Candidates Act, 2020, to grant 75 per cent reservation for locals in private jobs.
The Supreme Court said that state governments are obligated to collect quantifiable data, on inadequacy of representation, before granting reservation in promotion to Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) employees in government jobs.
The rule regarding 75 per cent job reservation came into effect on January 15.
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, in an official release here, said the Haryana State Employment of Local Candidates Act, 2020 will be made applicable with effect from January 15, 2022 with the priority of providing employment to the local youth in the private sector.
The Centre had earlier told the Supreme Court that it is a fact of life that even after around 75 years those belonging to SCs and STs have not been brought to the same level of merit as the forward classes.
Tamil Nadu government will bear the tuition fees among others of students enrolling in professional courses in the State under the 7.5 per cent quota.
The Supreme Court Tuesday said it would not reopen its decision on granting reservation in promotions to Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) as it was for the states to decide how they implement it.
Rahul Gandhi's attack came after the government came out with the national asset monetisation pipeline to garner Rs 6 lakh crore in the coming years.
The government has exempted certain establishments from the purview of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 section which provides for reservation in employment for persons with benchmark disabilities, according to gazette notifications.
Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed the Constitution (127th Amendment) Bill 2021 after a thaw in the logjam as Opposition parties backed the legislation but demanded the removal of the 50 per cent cap on reservation and many of them also called for a caste-based census.
He was speaking at an event organised by the India Foundation for the launch of a book, titled "Makers Of Modern Dalit History".
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