BhubaneswarMight 21, 2025 19:02 IST
First revealed on: Might 21, 2025 at 19:02 IST
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Regardless of the Odisha authorities’s announcement of 11.25 p.c reservation for the backward lessons in training, Opposition Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and the Congress proceed to step up their social justice pitch – this time in search of a quota in medical, engineering and different skilled programs.
At a rally held exterior the Raj Bhavan, the Naveen Patnaik-led BJD has demanded 27 p.c reservation for the backward lessons in “a uniform method” in greater training and technical academic programs reminiscent of medical and engineering.
This comes days after the Mohan Charan Majhi Cupboard cleared a proposal to present 11.25 p.c quota within the academic establishments to the socially and educationally backward lessons (SEBC) – a transfer that might profit 231 teams within the state. That reservation is to be carried out in all state public universities, state authorities and aided greater secondary and better training establishments in addition to undergraduate, postgraduate programs.
Biju Janata Dal leaders together with MPs, MLAs and senior leaders submitted a Memorandum earlier than the Hon’ble Governor of #Odisha requesting his fast intervention for the implementation of reservation for OBCs, SC and STs proportionate to their inhabitants. The leaders urged to… pic.twitter.com/xviaCpGbhA
— Biju Janata Dal (@bjd_odisha) May 21, 2025
The transfer, in response to observers, was an try to checkmate the BJD’s pitch for social justice.
BJD’s OBC cell chairman Arun Kumar Sahoo known as BJP authorities’s “a mere eyewash”. “Of complete 2.73 lakh seats in Plus-3 programs (commencement), round 70,000-80,000 seats are mendacity vacant and so they introduced a quota for these programs. They’ve tactically averted implementation of the reservation in medical and engineering programs,” Sahoo stated.
The social gathering additionally alleged that regardless of the scheduled tribes (ST) and scheduled caste (SC) communities comprising 22.5 p.c and 16.25 p.c of state’s complete inhabitants respectively, the present reservation in technical, medical, and engineering schools stands at solely 12 p.c for STs and 8percent for SCs — totalling merely 20 p.c.
“It falls considerably in need of the 38.75 p.c mixed reservation that must be allotted in proportion to their inhabitants, as is the case in different sectors of upper training throughout the state,” one other BJP chief stated.
The BJD’s push for social justice comes practically a yr after it misplaced the meeting elections within the state to the BJP – its first election loss in 24 years. Considerably, 94 p.c of the state’s inhabitants comprise SC, ST and social and financial backward lessons.
In the meantime, the Congress too has deliberate to carry an illustration exterior Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Majhi’s’s residence Thursday demanding 27 p.c reservation.
On his half, Odisha Larger Schooling Minister Suryabanshi Suraj has slammed each the BJD and Congress. “Those that disadvantaged the backward lessons of their constitutional rights whereas in energy are actually staging demonstrations,” he stated.