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Reservation bills for STs & Muslims this Assembly session
A day after the criticism that key promises of KCR failed to find a place in the Governor’s address, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao announced that the government would bring in two legislations to enhance the reservation for Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Muslims during this session.
Hyderabad: A day after the criticism that key promises of KCR failed to find a place in the Governor’s address, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao announced that the government would bring in two legislations to enhance the reservation for Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Muslims during this session.
Replying to a discussion on the motion of thanks to Governor’s address, the Chief Minister said that he would then lead an all-party delegation to New Delhi to urge the Centre to include the legislations in the 9th Schedule of the Constitution as was done in the case of Tamil Nadu.
KCR assured the House that the Telangana Rashtra Samithi government will fulfill its commitment to enhance quota to Muslims and STs to 12 per cent each. The reservations would be on the basis of economic backwardness of the Muslims and STs and it would not be reservations based on religion.
Muslims, who constitute 12.68 per cent of Telangana’s 3.52 crore population, currently enjoy 4 per cent quota in education and jobs, he said.
The STs, who are 9.34 per cent of the population, are availing 6 per cent reservation. Enhancing the quota for Muslims and STs will take total reservation in the state to over 50 per cent, the upper limit prescribed by the Supreme Court, thus requiring a constitutional amendment.
The Chief Minister had earlier said that if the central government refuses to include the laws in the 9th Schedule, the state would fight a legal battle.
