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By Satyajeet Kumar: In another setback for the Hemant Soren government in Jharkhand, Governor CP Radhakrishnan has returned the bill seeking to increase reservation quotas for the Scheduled Tribes, Scheduled Castes, and the OBCs, according to sources.
Sources said that the bill has been returned for review since it was not in accordance with the law. The previous Jharkhand Governor Ramesh Bais had sought the opinion of the Attorney General in the matter, sources added. The file was sent back to the government last month as the bill did not take into account Supreme Court judgements on the issue of reservation.
This was the second bill that the Jharkhand Governor has returned to the state government in the past four months. Earlier in January, the then Jharkhand Governor Ramesh Bais had sent back the bill on domicile.
About Hemant Soren’s 2 bills
In November last year, Jharkhand Chief Minister announced that his government was going to table bills on domicile policy and reservation quotas for the Scheduled Tribes, Scheduled Castes, and the OBCs.
“November 11 will again become a historic day. Two years ago, the Sarna Adivasi Religion Code was passed. This year, we are going to pass the 1932 Khatiyan [land records] Domicile Policy and the bill to increase the reservation quotas for the OBC, ST, and SC,” Heman Soren had said.
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The Jharkhand assembly had approved the domicile bill that defined the state’s local residents on the basis of land survey records of 1932. The state government had passed the “Jharkhand definition of local persons and for extending the consequential, social, cultural and other benefits to such local persons Bill, 2022”, popularly known as 1932 Khatiyan Bill.
However, in January this year, the then Governor, Ramesh Bais, returned the bill to the government for reconsideration.
The second bill passed by the Jharkhand government sought to increase the Other Backward Class quota from 14% to 27%, and that of Schedule Tribes to 28% from 26%, and Scheduled Castes to 12% from 10%. With the inclusion of the 10% reservation for the Economically Weaker Sections, the total reservation in state government jobs would have gone up to 77%.
However, the second bill on reservation has also been returned to the Hemant Soren government for review.
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