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The State government, which is nether unit from the Dalit near groups implicit implementing interior preservation successful the 15% quota for Scheduled Castes, has convened a peculiar furniture connected March 27 to sermon the issue.
The treatment connected the taxable was inconclusive during the past Cabinet arsenic Dalit Ministers successful the Cabinet could not get astatine a statement pursuing which Chief Minister Siddaramaiah deferred the treatment to a peculiar cabinet.
While the Dalit close (Holeyas) are believed to beryllium opposed to the interior preservation wrong 15% quota, the Dalit near (Madigas) are insisting that the recruitment to 56,432 posts should beryllium held with interior reservation. Backchannel talks are learnt to beryllium nether mode to get astatine a statement earlier the Cabinet takes up the substance for discussion.
MP’s letter
Meanwhile, arsenic Karnataka authorities grapples with the 56% preservation contented arsenic it exceeds the Supreme Court mandated headdress of 50%, G. Kumar Naik, Raichur MP, has written to Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Virendra Kumar to initiate enactment 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, that provides preservation for SCs and STs astatine 17% and 7%, respectively, nether the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution. He has urged the Minister to instrumentality up the treatment during the ongoing Parliament session.
With the authorities deciding to revert to 50% preservation headdress owed to ongoing tribunal cases against 56% reservation, the nayakas/Valmikis are upset arsenic their quota of preservation would travel down from 7% to 3% portion quota for SCs volition travel down from 17% to 15%.
