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New Indian Express
6 days ago
- Politics
- New Indian Express
SC caste survey report to be discussed at Special Cabinet meet in Karnataka on August 16
BENGALURU: The State Cabinet has decided to discuss the Justice HN Nagamohan Das Commission's report on internal reservation for Scheduled Castes on August 16. The report was submitted to the Cabinet on Thursday. 'The Commission has surveyed 92 per cent of the people of 101 SC communities. Copies of the report have been distributed to all the members of the Cabinet. Everyone will come to the special cabinet meeting after reading the report and participate in the discussion', said Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister HK Patil. The ministers hailing from different SC communities, including Social Welfare Minister Dr HC Mahadevappa, Home Minister Dr G Parameshwara, Food and Civil Supplies Minister KH Muniyappa, Excise Minister RB Thimmapur, RDPR Minister Priyank Kharge and Backward Classes Development minister Shivaraj Tangadagi did not speak much about the report, according to sources. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah suggested the ministers to go through the report and come back for a positive debate in the special Cabinet. The Congress government is seemingly under tremendous pressure with the leadership of SC Left community, which fought for internal reservation for over three decades, urging for the early implementation of the recommendations of the Commission as it was a year ago the Supreme Court, on Aug.1, 2024, pronounced that the states are constitutionally empowered to classify the SC quota. However the Bhovi and Lambani communities' leadership want the CM not to hurry. The government has to take a decision as it cannot go ahead with recruitment without implementing sub-classification of the SC quota. The Commission has classified the 101 castes into A,B,C,D, E categories and allotted 1, 6, 5, 4 and 1 per cent each. The SC Left aka Madiga caste has emerged as the largest with a population of 36,69,246 (34.91%) and the Commission has recommended a 6 per cent quota out of the 17 per cent SC quota under Category B.
Indian Express
05-08-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
Internal reservation in Karnataka: Nagamohan Das Commission recommends 6% for SC Left, 5% for SC Right communities
Getting the ball rolling to provide internal reservation for Scheduled Castes (SC) communities in Karnataka, the Justice Nagamohan Das Commission has recommended classifying the 101 castes under the SC list into five groups. The Commission, which submitted its report to the state government on Monday, has also specified the reservation quota for various SC groups. The recommendations are expected to be taken up for discussion by the state Cabinet during its next meeting. According to sources, the first of the five groups is classified as the most backward. For these communities, which have a total population of around 5 lakh in the state, a reservation of 1 per cent of the 17 per cent available for SCs has been recommended. As per the Commission, the communities lagged in social and economic indicators, compared to other backward SC groups. The backward SC Left communities are classified under group two, which consists of sub-castes such as Madigas. The Commission has recommended 6 per cent reservation for them. Group three has SC Right castes, such as Holeyas, and the Commission has said they should be provided 5 per cent reservation. The 'touchable' SC communities in the state, such as Banjara, Bhovi and others, will be offered 4 per cent reservation, followed by another 1 per cent to SC groups falling under the Adi Karnataka, Adi Dravida and Adi Andhra castes. The recommendations are different from the ones the erstwhile BJP government decided to implement at the end of its tenure in March 2023. Under the scrapped internal reservation policy of the BJP, the SC Left community was given 6 per cent of the 17 per cent reservation quota for SCs, the SC Right 5.5 per cent, the 'touchable' SC communities 4.5 per cent, and other SC groups 1 per cent reservation. Panel had recommended fresh SC survey The Nagamohan Das Commission was formed in November 2024 after a Supreme Court decision allowed state governments to sub-categorise the various SC groups to provide internal reservation. In its interim report submitted earlier this year, the Commission had recommended that the government go for a fresh survey of SC communities, noting that there was no empirical data on the population of various SC groups. The survey, which enumerated around 27 lakh SC families in the state, began in May. Though it was to be completed in a fortnight, problems faced in data collection in Bengaluru Urban have delayed the exercise. The state government had also decided not to notify any fresh appointments for government posts until internal reservation quotas for SC communities were notified. Efforts to implement internal reservation for SCs in the state date back to 2005, when the Karnataka government formed the Justice Sadashiva Commission to provide internal reservation to SC communities. It had recommended 6 per cent reservation for SC Left communities, 5 per cent for SC Right groups, 3 per cent for 'touchable' castes, and 1 per cent for other SC castes. The Basavaraj Bommai government had decided to increase reservation for SCs from 15 per cent to 17 per cent. Following this, a Cabinet sub-committee was formed under former law and parliamentary affairs minister J C Madhuswamy to look into internal reservation.
