J&K Cabinet sends sub-committee draft on reservation policy to law department
Srinagar, June 18 (UNI) Jammu and Kashmir Cabinet has sent the draft of its sub-committee on rationalisation of the reservation policy to the law department, government sources said today.
The Cabinet meeting was chaired by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah here.
While there is no official word from the J & K government about the decisions of the Cabinet, government sources said the report of the sub-committee was presented before the Cabinet which sent it to the law department for legal opinion.
'The report will be examined by the law department first,' the sources said.
The three-member sub-committee to review the policy, comprised education minister Sakina Itoo, forest minister Javed Ahmad Rana, and science and technology minister Satish Sharma submitted their report to the government earlier this month.
The amended reservation policy that was introduced last year in March by J&K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha had met with protests by the Open Merit candidates, who claimed that despite being 70% of the UT's population, they got less than 30% of the share in government jobs and scholarships.
The Lieutenant Governor amended the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation Act, 2004 which enhanced reservation from 43% to 70% in government jobs. The jump was because the ST status was given to the Pahari community.
Later J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah formed the sub-committee to examine the contentious policy. The committee formed in December last year was given six months time. UNI MJR SSP
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