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State has over the last year seen multiple communities demanding bigger share
The State government, which has been trapped in the caste conundrum for nearly a year with several communities pushing for a change in reservation matrix or status, can settle for status quo, at least for now.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to enhance the 50% cap on reservation in government employment and educational avenues in the case pertaining to reservation for Maratha community. This will significantly reverberate across the country, especially Karnataka.
Vocal demand
As many as 44 caste groups, including politically powerful groups such as the Panchamasali Lingayats, Kurubas, and Vokkaligas, are learnt to have raised the pitch for a change in reservation matrix. Vocal demand had come from religious seers and powerful politicians from the communities, putting enormous pressure on the government.
Without caste census, OBCs will forever be denied social justice
P.N. Sankaran chronicles the debate on caste census, argues that it is indeed feasible and shows how every effort to ensure representation in the State of all historically oppressed communities is bound to fail without such a census
On 26 February 2021, the Supreme Court issued a notice to the central government on a petition seeking caste-based census in the country. The petition said that such a census would address the lack of data needed to provide adequate reservations in jobs and admissions to the Other Backward Classes (OBC) or the Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC). The proforma for the 2021 census has been announced, the petition said, adding it has 32 columns with headers Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Hindu, Muslim, Christian, etc but has no mention of the OBCs. It sought urgent court intervention to introduce such a proforma for the 2021 census that has a column for the OBCs. Inadequat
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It was to be formed in 2018, but was not taken forward, says Social Welfare Minister
Rekindling the debate on internal reservation, the State government has promised to shortly set up a Cabinet sub-committee to review the recommendations of the A.J. Sadashiva Commission.
Social Welfare Minister B. Sriramulu told the Legislative Council on Wednesday that such a move was first proposed in 2018, but not taken forward. The sub-committee will study the report and its recommendation will be placed before the House, the Minister said. He, however, refrained from setting any deadline for the whole process to be completed.