Jharkhand govt keen to give reservation to BC, OBC

Updated on: Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda revealed his government favoured reservation to backward and other backward classes in districts where the 50 per cent cap did not leave them any scope for reservation in district-level jobs.
"There are some districts where whole of the 50 per cent reservation limit goes to ST and SC, leaving no scope for reservation to BC and OBC," Munda informed the state Assembly.

The government was taking legal opinion before moving the high court to seek increase in the reservation beyond 50 percent to accommodate BC and OBC in such districts, he added.

The BC and OBC get whatever percentage left after the allotment to ST and SC in some districts while they don't get in some other districts as the population ratio of ST and SC is more, which prevents to accommodate BC and OBC.

Munda was replying to Independent MLA Gita Koda's query as to whether the government would consider reservation to BC and OBC in West Singhbhum, Simdega, Gumla, Lohardaga, Dumka and Latehar districts where the benefit was not given following the 50 percent reservation limit.

Jharkhand High Court had in 2002 stayed a petition challenging reservation exceeding to 73 per cent with a direction to wait the Supreme Court's decision on a similar petition pertaining to Tamil Nadu (69 per cent reservation) was being heard then, Munda said.

The government, he added, would study the Supreme Court's order in the Tamil Nadu case before moving to the high court.

Jharkhand govt keen to give reservation to BC, OBC

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