The Bihar authorities led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has hiked reservations within the state to 75 per cent together with 10 per cent reservation for Financial Weaker Part. It contains 20 per cent for SCs, 2 per cent for STs, 18 per cent for OBCs, and 25 per cent for EBCs.
The 65 per cent reservation restrict authorised by the Nitish cupboard is above than the 50 per cent restrict set by the Supreme Courtroom of India. The Bihar authorities’s choice got here after CM Nitish Kumar introduced his intent to boost quotas for Different Backward Courses, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes within the state.
The reservation hike comes within the wake of Bihar authorities’s caste primarily based survey which additionally included financial standing of the residents. The second a part of the survey report was tabled within the meeting in the present day that exposed some worrying information.
In keeping with the survey report, OBCs, together with the extraordinarily backward courses sub-group, accounted for a whopping 63 per cent of the state’s complete inhabitants, whereas SCs and STs collectively have been barely over 21 per cent. The report stated greater than a 3rd of households in Bihar are poor and are making do with a month-to-month revenue of Rs 6,000 or much less, whereas the proportion of SC-ST households dwelling on related revenue is 42.
CM Nitish Kumar additionally stated that his authorities is planning to offer an help of Rs two lakh every to the 94 lakh poor households for taking on some type of economically productive work. In the meantime, the BJP has stated that it helps the hike within the reservation. “BJP gave its full assist to the rise the reservation limits in Bihar…The 16% reservation to the SC needs to be elevated to 20%. We requested that the 1% reservation for the ST needs to be elevated to 2%. BJP has all the time prolonged assist to any social gathering when it’s for reservation…,” BJP Bihar chief Samrat Chaudhary stated earlier in the present day earlier than the announcement of the quota hike.
Former Bihar Deputy CM Sushil Modi demanded a hike in reservation in Panchayat and civic physique as properly. “If the rights of the Extraordinarily Backward Courses will not be safeguarded, the elevated reservation wouldn’t be useful to them… Ward smart and Panchayat smart knowledge needs to be printed… We may also increase this within the meeting… The federal government didn’t say something concerning the reservation in Panchayat and civic physique elections. We would like them to deliver a invoice concerning this the day after tomorrow… In Panchayat, the reservation is 37%, however it may be simply hiked to 50% or extra…,” stated the Rajya Sabha MP.
