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Chief Minister Siddaramaiah connected Friday said that the State authorities was committed to providing 1% preservation to nomadic communities arsenic portion of societal justice.
“The authorities volition reappraisal and instrumentality enactment connected however the preservation tin beryllium given. The authorities does not person immoderate volition to origin injustice to the community, and the authorities intends to compensate everyone,” the Chief Minister told a delegation of the nomadic assemblage that met him here. He said that the authorities has made efforts to supply interior reservation, and that the disorder astir the contented volition beryllium sorted out.
The authorities did not judge the proposal of the one-man committee headed by retired justice H.N. Nagmohan Das that had recommended 1% preservation to 59 communities, including 49 microscopic communities, that are astir backward. Instead, these communities were clubbed with backward communities of Lambani, Korama, Koracha, and Bhovi for a preservation matrix of 5%. However, the communities person argued that contention for preservation benefits is among unequals, and the nomadic communities whitethorn not beryllium capable to vie with comparatively amended disconnected Lambanis and others.
On Friday, the assemblage leaders petitioned the Chief Minister seeking a abstracted 1% preservation for their communities, whose numbers are astir 5.2 lakh, a peculiar fiscal package, and the mounting up of a abstracted improvement corp for the nomadic and semi nomadic communities.
