Karnataka cabinet increased reservation for SC, ST community: The Karnataka cabinet decided to promulgate an ordinance to raise reservations for Scheduled Caste (SCs) by 2 percent and for Scheduled Tribe (STs) by 4 percent. Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai on Monday said that governor Thawar Chand Gehlot has given his assent to the ordinance promulgated by the state government to hike the quota for SC/ST communities. Bommai, however, said that the ordinance will be passed in the next assembly session.
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The files related to the reservation will be submitted to Governor Thaawar Chand Gehlot for approval. The hike in the reservation will benefit the 103 communities classified as SCs and 56 communities among STs. The initiative to increase the reservation for SC/STs by the state government implies that reservation will cross the Supreme Court’s 50 percent limit and go up to 55 percent in Karnataka. The BJP government in Karnataka decided to increase the quota based on a report prepared by a community headed by retired High Court Judge H.N. Nagmohan Das.
