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Six Members of Parliament person urged the Union Government to see 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 successful the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution to safeguard preservation benefits for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes successful the State.
A delegation comprising G. Kumar Naik (Raichur), E. Tukaram (Ballari), Priyanka Satish Jarkiholi (Chikkodi), Rajashekhar Hitnal (Koppal), Prabha Mallikarjun (Davanagere), and Sunil Bose (Chamarajanagar) met Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Virendra Kumar connected March 11 to taxable a memorandum seeking urgent enactment connected the issue.
In the memorandum dated March 10, the MPs expressed interest that the connection sent by the authorities of Karnataka to see the Act successful the Ninth Schedule has been pending with the Union Government for much than 3 years.
The MPs said that inclusion of the authorities successful the Ninth Schedule nether Articles 31(B) and 31(C) of the Constitution is indispensable to support the preservation argumentation from ineligible challenges, and guarantee effectual implementation of enhanced preservation for SCs and STs communities successful Karnataka.
They informed that the Act was enacted to beforehand the law objectives nether Articles 15, 16, 38, 39 and 46, which mandate the State to beforehand societal justice, trim inequalities and safeguard the acquisition and economical interests of weaker sections.
The memorandum recalled that the State Government forwarded the connection to the Union Government successful March 2023 for inclusion of the Act successful the Ninth Schedule. However, the substance is yet to beryllium taken up for consideration.
The MPs said that the request for enhanced preservation for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes successful the State had persisted for decades.
They pointed retired that important changes had occurred successful the classification and designation of SC and ST communities since the 1960s. In particular, the enactment of Central Act 108 of 1976 removed geographical restrictions attached to galore communities, thereby expanding the colonisation eligible for preservation benefits. Despite this increase, the preservation quota successful the State had remained unchanged since 1958, they said.
They referred to the recommendations of the H.N. Nagamohandas Commission, constituted pursuing directions of the High Court of Karnataka, which examined the socio-economic presumption and practice of SCs and STs communities based connected extended empirical data.
The findings were aboriginal reviewed by an implementation committee headed by Subhash B. Adi, based connected which the State Government enacted the legislation.
According to the MPs, the committee highlighted issues specified arsenic debased literacy levels and constricted practice of these communities successful nationalist employment and education. They besides pointed retired that respective different States supply higher preservation percentages contempt having less notified communities.
The MPs said timely enactment by the Centre volition assistance unafraid the rights and owed practice of SCs and STs communities successful the State.
Mr. Kumar Naik told The Hindu that the connection is important for ensuring justness and law extortion for millions of SC and ST communities successful the State. He urged the Union Government to accord precedence to the matter, and instrumentality it up for information during the ongoing fund league of Parliament.
