Getting the ball rolling to supply inside reservation for Scheduled Castes (SC) communities in Karnataka, the Justice Nagamohan Das Fee has advisable classifying the 101 castes below the SC record into 5 teams.
The Fee, which submitted its report back to the state authorities on Monday, has additionally specified the reservation quota for numerous SC teams. The suggestions are anticipated to be taken up for dialogue by the state Cupboard throughout its subsequent assembly.
In keeping with sources, the primary of the 5 teams is assessed as essentially the most backward. For these communities, which have a complete inhabitants of round 5 lakh within the state, a reservation of 1 per cent of the 17 per cent obtainable for SCs has been advisable. As per the Fee, the communities lagged in social and financial indicators, in comparison with different backward SC teams.
The backward SC Left communities are categorized below group two, which consists of sub-castes resembling Madigas. The Fee has advisable 6 per cent reservation for them.
Group three has SC Proper castes, resembling Holeyas, and the Fee has stated they need to be offered 5 per cent reservation.
The ‘touchable’ SC communities within the state, resembling Banjara, Bhovi and others, shall be provided 4 per cent reservation, adopted by one other 1 per cent to SC teams falling below the Adi Karnataka, Adi Dravida and Adi Andhra castes.
The suggestions are completely different from those the erstwhile BJP authorities determined to implement on the finish of its tenure in March 2023. Underneath the scrapped inside reservation coverage of the BJP, the SC Left group was given 6 per cent of the 17 per cent reservation quota for SCs, the SC Proper 5.5 per cent, the ‘touchable’ SC communities 4.5 per cent, and different SC teams 1 per cent reservation.
Panel had advisable recent SC survey
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The Nagamohan Das Fee was fashioned in November 2024 after a Supreme Courtroom choice allowed state governments to sub-categorise the assorted SC teams to supply inside reservation.
In its interim report submitted earlier this yr, the Fee had advisable that the federal government go for a recent survey of SC communities, noting that there was no empirical knowledge on the inhabitants of assorted SC teams.
The survey, which enumerated round 27 lakh SC households within the state, started in Might. Although it was to be accomplished in a fortnight, issues confronted in knowledge assortment in Bengaluru City have delayed the train.
The state authorities had additionally determined to not notify any recent appointments for presidency posts till inside reservation quotas for SC communities had been notified.
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Efforts to implement inside reservation for SCs within the state date again to 2005, when the Karnataka authorities fashioned the Justice Sadashiva Fee to supply inside reservation to SC communities. It had advisable 6 per cent reservation for SC Left communities, 5 per cent for SC Proper teams, 3 per cent for ‘touchable’ castes, and 1 per cent for different SC castes.
The Basavaraj Bommai authorities had determined to extend reservation for SCs from 15 per cent to 17 per cent. Following this, a Cupboard sub-committee was fashioned below former legislation and parliamentary affairs minister J C Madhuswamy to look into inside reservation.