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Ordinance on hiked quota for SC/ST soon: Karnataka Minister
Karnataka Minister for Scheduled Tribes Welfare B Sriramulu on Monday said the State government would promulgate an ordinance to increase reservation for SC/ST (schedule caste/schedule tribe).
Karnataka Minister for Scheduled Tribes Welfare B Sriramulu on Monday said the State government would promulgate an ordinance to increase reservation for SC/ST (schedule caste/schedule tribe). The State Cabinet recently approved the increase.
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"The ordinance will be promulgated in a day or two. The process has started," Sriramulu told reporters here. He said the hike would be beneficial from the date the ordinance is promulgated.
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The government would recommend to the Centre bringing the hike under the 9th Schedule of the Constitution.
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With the promulgation, the reservation for SCs would be 17 per cent and for STs 7 per cent as against 15 per cent and 3 per cent earlier.
The government decided to issue an executive order hiking the quota.
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Retired Justice H N Nagamohan Das, who headed a commission that recommended the hike, met Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai last week, and reportedly advised the latter to consider promulgating an ordinance instead of the executive order.
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