The Bihar authorities led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has hiked reservations within the state to 75 per cent together with 10 per cent reservation for Economic Weaker Section. It contains 20 per cent for SCs, 2 per cent for STs, 18 per cent for OBCs, and 25 per cent for EBCs.
The 65 per cent reservation restrict authorized by the Nitish cupboard is above than the 50 per cent restrict set by the Supreme Court of India. The Bihar authorities’s determination got here after CM Nitish Kumar introduced his intent to lift quotas for Other Backward Classes, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes within the state.
The reservation hike comes within the wake of Bihar authorities’s caste based mostly survey which additionally included financial standing of the residents. The second a part of the survey report was tabled within the meeting in the present day that exposed some worrying information.Â
According to the survey report, OBCs, together with the extraordinarily backward lessons sub-group, accounted for a whopping 63 per cent of the state’s whole inhabitants, whereas SCs and STs collectively have been barely over 21 per cent. The report stated greater than a 3rd of households in Bihar are poor and are making do with a month-to-month earnings of Rs 6,000 or much less, whereas the proportion of SC-ST households dwelling on comparable earnings is 42.
CM Nitish Kumar additionally stated that his authorities is planning to supply an help of Rs two lakh every to the 94 lakh poor households for taking over some type of economically productive work. Meanwhile, the BJP has stated that it helps the hike within the reservation. “BJP gave its full support to the increase the reservation limits in Bihar…The 16% reservation to the SC should be increased to 20%. We requested that the 1% reservation for the ST should be increased to 2%. BJP has always extended support to any party when it is for reservation…,” BJP Bihar chief Samrat Chaudhary stated earlier in the present day earlier than the announcement of the quota hike.
Former Bihar Deputy CM Sushil Modi demanded a hike in reservation in (*9*) and civic physique as nicely. “If the rights of the Extremely Backward Classes are not safeguarded, the increased reservation would not be beneficial to them… Ward wise and Panchayat wise data should be published… We will also raise this in the assembly… The government did not say anything about the reservation in Panchayat and civic body elections. We want them to bring a bill regarding this the day after tomorrow… In Panchayat, the reservation is 37%, but it can be easily hiked to 50% or more…,” stated the Rajya Sabha MP.
