Scheduled Castes to be divided into three groups to implement 15% reservation
Reservations for the Scheduled Castes will forthwith be made on the basis of three major groups within the community identified by the Telangana Government. The Bill follows the Supreme Court’s direction permitting sub-classification within Scheduled Castes reserved categories,followingpersistent demands and representations from various sections among them. The Bill said that in order to eliminate inequalities in status, facilities and opportunities not only amongst individuals, but also groups and to ensure that SCs which form the most backward classes achieved unified and uniform progress, the government had decided to bring legislation for sub-classification of SC community without touching upon or interfering with the Constitution Order 1950. The Government constituted the dedicated commission headed by retired High Court judge Justice Shameem Akther which collected empirical data concerning population, literacy, employment, admissions, recruitments, financial assistance and political representation pertaining to 59 sub-castes under SCs from different departments and organisations. In the meantime, the Government had also consulted the National Commission for Scheduled Castes as required under Article 338 of the Constitution and had decided to sub-classify the SC community.
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