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Give Rs 3000-crore package to Maratha community: Maharashtra BJP
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Last Updated: May 14, 2021, 07:31 PM IST
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Speaking to reporters in Kolhapur, some 375 kilometres from here, the party s Maharashtra unit chief Chandrakant Patil said the previous government under Devendra Fadnavis had proposed a formula to treat the Maratha community at par with the Other Backward Classes when it came to educational facilities and self-employment.
Patil said the Uddhav Thackeray government must file a review petition in the Supreme Court in connection with the apex court s order on the 102nd Amendment of the Constitution.
The BJP on Friday demanded that the Maharashtra government announce a Rs 3,000 crore package to provide educational facilities and scholarships to the Maratha community on the lines of the assistance given to those from the OBC category.
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MUMBAI: In a bid to provide relief to the Maratha community, the MVA government is looking at bringing in schemes and concessions along the lines of those extended in September 2020 after the quota was stayed by the Supreme Court.
An official linked to the cabinet sub-committee on Maratha reservation said the state is considering providing relie. “Various options will be discussed and steps finalised in 3-4 days or a week,” said the official.
In September 2020, the state had announced scholarships, concessions in hostel accommodation, a fund for ‘Sarthi,’ a non-profit government company for Marathas, withdrawal of 26 cases registered against Maratha youths during the quota agitation and government jobs for the next of kin of those who had died during the protests.