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The announcement was made connected the archetypal time of Haryana’s wintertime league by Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini. (PTI Photo)
Haryana implemented sub-classification wrong the Scheduled Castes (SC) for preservation successful authorities jobs connected Tuesday, arsenic announced by Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini successful the Vidhan Sabha. The announcement was made connected the archetypal time of Haryana’s wintertime session, with Saini stating, “The sub-classification wrong the Scheduled Castes, arsenic allowed by the Supreme Court, has been implemented successful Haryana from 5 p.m. today.”
This determination holds value up of the upcoming Maharashtra elections, wherever a akin sheet for SC sub-classification had been acceptable up conscionable earlier predetermination announcements, suggesting that the BJP whitethorn marque this portion of its nationalist strategy to antagonistic the Opposition’s caste-census focus.
On August 1, the Supreme Court had ruled that states person the law authorization to make sub-classifications wrong the SC category, recognising its societal heterogeneity. Following this, the Saini-led authorities successful Haryana approved the sub-classification determination successful its archetypal furniture gathering connected October 18.
The Haryana State Commission for SCs had recommended dividing the SC preservation into 2 categories: Deprived Scheduled Castes (DSC) and Other Scheduled Castes (OSC). The DSC category, which includes 36 castes specified arsenic Dhanaks, Balmikis, Mazhabi Sikhs, and Khatiks, would person 50 percent of the SC occupation quota, citing inadequate practice successful authorities jobs. Castes specified arsenic Chamar, Jatia Chamar, Rehgar, Raigar, Ramdasi, Ravidasi, Jatav, Mochi, and Ramdasia would autumn nether OSC.
The furniture had initially approved the recommendations connected August 17, aboriginal formalising the sub-classification determination successful its October 18 meeting, conscionable aft the BJP’s 3rd consecutive electoral win. In 2020, Haryana had besides introduced the Haryana Scheduled Castes (Reservation successful Admission successful Educational Institutions) Act, which reserved 50 percent of the SC seats successful higher acquisition institutions for the DSC category.
In the caller assembly elections, the BJP won 8 of the 17 seats reserved for SCs, compared to 5 retired of 17 successful 2019.
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