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Senior Congress person V.S. Ugrappa connected Monday (May 11) urged the State authorities to initiate steps to get the enactment connected 56% preservation vacated successful Karnataka High Court adjacent arsenic helium urged the Centre to see the hiked preservation successful the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution.
“The ineligible squad has to person the High Court. Somewhere, the squad has slipped. The Advocate General has besides not attended immoderate of the hearings. He has besides submitted to the tribunal that the 50% preservation volition beryllium implemented,” Mr. Ugrappa told presspersons present aft attending a gathering organised by the Valmiki community’s Samana Manaskara Vedike.
With the authorities scheduled to notify 56,432 posts crossed departments for recruitment, Mr. Ugrappa estimated that alternatively of 3,750 posts nether 7% reservation, the assemblage volition get astir 1,600 posts nether 3% reservation.
He said that The Karnataka Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Reservation of Seats successful Educational Institutions and of Appointments oregon Posts successful the Services nether the State) Act, 2022 — providing for 17% and 7% preservation to SCs and STs respectively — had received the Governor’s assent, and that the preservation is successful proportionality to the population.
The erstwhile MP said that the Centre should instrumentality steps to see the authorities nether the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution to supply ineligible protection. He pointed retired that the State had written respective letters to the Centre connected the matter. “When the Centre has included cases of respective States, wherefore is it delaying Karnataka’s case? This was a authorities brought by the BJP authorities successful Karnataka,” helium noted.
