Odisha Cabinet Approves Decision to Add 22 New Castes to State OBC List
How much reservation do OBCs get in Odisha? However, whenever the government has tried to raise the quota, it has been struck down by the courts for crossing the 50% ceiling of total reservation set by the Supreme Court in the 1993 Indra Sawhney judgment. For example, Orissa High Court had struck down the Odisha Reservation of Posts and Services Act, 2008, which had stipulated 27% reservation for the OBCs. The Scheduled Tribes get 22.5% while the Scheduled Castes get 16.25% reservation in the state, which takes the total reservation for the SCs, STs and OBCs to 50%. After the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the reservation for the Economically Weaker Sections of citizens in November 2022, the 50% ceiling set by the Indra Sawhney judgment has been breached at the national level as well as in most states.
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