Karnataka Congress govt okays internal reservation for SCs; forms 1-man commission

Until the recommendations of the committee are out, Karnataka volition not contented notifications for caller recruitment successful authorities jobs, the curate said.

The interior preservation is based connected a Supreme Court judgment. Karnataka volition survey the presumption of notation issued successful Telangana for a akin committee to measure the assorted parameters required to supply interior preservation for SC communities. Earlier this twelvemonth (prior to the SC bid connected interior quotas), the Congress authorities had argued that interior preservation was lone imaginable if the Centre amended Article 341(3) of the Constitution.

During the briefing, Social Welfare Minister H C Mahadevappa said the caller committee was instituted arsenic the erstwhile BJP authorities had rejected the Justice A J Sadashiva Commission study successful 2022. The one-man committee volition person to either notation to nationalist census information for interior preservation oregon compile information connected its own. “Right now, the Census has nary information connected interior reservation,” helium said.

This has enactment the spotlight backmost connected the socio-economic and acquisition survey of the authorities government, which had compiled information of assorted communities successful the state. The study is to beryllium discussed by the authorities Cabinet earlier it is tabled successful the authorities legislature.

Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister Priyank Kharge told the quality league that the Supreme Court had asked for the usage of empirical information portion granting interior reservation. There are questions connected whether “data from the socio-economic and acquisition survey basal successful the tribunal of law…. Can the information beryllium cleared by the authorities authorities and whether it volition beryllium accepted by the Centre.”

Mahadevappa said that the authorities authorities volition instrumentality each 101 SC communities into assurance earlier implementing the reservation. The contented was discussed with each communities specified arsenic the SC left, SC right, Lambanis, and Bhovis. “They each privation an interior reservation, provided it is based connected empirical data,” helium said.

To a question connected the root of empirical data, the Cabinet ministers said that clarity connected the aforesaid volition look erstwhile the presumption of notation for the committee are issued.

Previously, the Sadashiva Commission had recommended distributing the 15 per cent quota reserved for SCs with 6 per cent to SC left, 5 per cent to SC right, 3 per cent to Bhovi, Lambani, Koracha and Korama communities, and 1 per cent to different SC groups.

In October 2022, the erstwhile BJP authorities nether Basavaraj Bommai accrued reservations for SCs successful jobs and acquisition from 15 per cent to 17 per cent. In the fag extremity of its tenure, the erstwhile BJP authorities had announced interior preservation for SC communities pursuing a Cabinet gathering connected March 24, 2023. It granted 6 per cent preservation to the astir backward SC ‘left’ radical which consists of 29 communities including Madigas, 5.5 per cent to the backward SC ‘right’ which has astir 25 communities specified arsenic Holeyas, and 4.5 per cent to touchable communities specified arsenic Banjaras and Bhovis. Other communities successful the SC class were fixed 1 per cent reservation.

The announcement was met with protests from members of the Lambani community, who had pelted stones astatine the residence of BJP Parliamentary Board subordinate and erstwhile CM B S Yediyurappa during a objection astatine Shikaripura, Shivamogga district. Angered astatine the interior preservation announced by the BJP government, they had accused the authorities of implementing the recommendations of the Sadashiva Commission done the backmost channel.

The projected preservation during the BJP tenure was shelved owed to ineligible issues astir the changes successful the wide preservation strategy successful Karnataka.