On Sunday, Chhattisgarh’s CM Bhupesh Baghel announced that his Govt will provide reservation benefits to the schedule caste (SC) community in proportion with their population in the state.
The SC community comprise roughly about 12.8% of the state’s population while the existing reservation provided to them is 12%.
The present Govt has blamed the previous CM Raman Singh from BJP-led Govt and said that “they reduced the reservation from 14 to 12% and the community was constantly demanding the restoration of the old percentage.”
According to an Official from CM’s Secretariat, it can't be assured if the move will help the SC community.
“It is not clear whether the SCs will benefit if the reservation will be decided on the basis of population as the BJP has been constantly claiming that the reservation percentage was reduced as per the population,” the official from Chief Minister’s secretariat said.
On Jan 18 in 2012, the then BJP Govt had issued an order related to the reservation in government jobs and educational institutes. The same order reduced the reservation of SC community to 12% from 16% and that for Scheduled Tribes was increased to 32%. The quota for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) was maintained at 14%.
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