{"id":89810,"date":"2019-08-16T15:19:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T09:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=9197"},"modified":"2019-08-16T15:19:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T09:49:29","slug":"chhattisgarh-doubles-obc-quota-hikes-sc-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/chhattisgarh-doubles-obc-quota-hikes-sc-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Chhattisgarh doubles OBC quota, hikes SC benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Chhattisgarh Chief Minister has announced an\nincrease in reservations for OBCs and Scheduled Castes in state government jobs\nand education.<\/li><li>The government has decided to increase the quota\nfor Scheduled Castes by 1% (at present it is 12%) The reservation for OBCs will\nbe increased from 14% to 27%. The quota for Scheduled Tribes will remain at 32%.<\/li><li>Once in effect, Chhattisgarh will have a total\nof 72% reservation, the highest in India. The will breach the 50% cap on\nreservation imposed by the Supreme Court in 1992.<\/li><li>The Supreme Court in the Indira Sawhney case\n(1992), had held that the power conferred to the State by Clause (4) of Article\n16 should be exercised in a fair manner and within reasonable limits. The court\nupheld that reservation under Clause (4) shall not exceed 50% of the\nappointments or posts, barring certain extraordinary situations<\/li><li>Article 16 (4) empowers the State to make provision\nfor the reservation of appointments or posts in favour of any backward class of\ncitizens which, in the opinion of the State, is inadequately represented in\npublic employment.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chhattisgarh Chief Minister has announced an increase in reservations for OBCs and Scheduled Castes in state government jobs and education. The government has decided to increase the quota for Scheduled Castes by 1% (at present it is 12%) The reservation for OBCs will be increased from 14% to 27%. The quota for Scheduled Tribes will&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/chhattisgarh-doubles-obc-quota-hikes-sc-benefits\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chhattisgarh doubles OBC quota, hikes SC benefits<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1234],"tags":[6584],"class_list":["post-89810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-current-affairs","tag-reservation","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}