Haryana carried out sub-classification inside the Scheduled Castes (SC) for reservation in authorities jobs on Tuesday, as introduced by Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini within the Vidhan Sabha. The announcement was made on the primary day of Haryana’s winter session, with Saini stating, “The sub-classification inside the Scheduled Castes, as allowed by the Supreme Courtroom, has been carried out in Haryana from 5 pm at this time.”
This resolution holds significance forward of the upcoming Maharashtra elections, the place the same panel for SC sub-classification had been arrange simply earlier than election bulletins, suggesting that the BJP could make this a part of its nationwide technique to counter the Opposition’s caste-census focus.
On August 1, the Supreme Courtroom had dominated that states have the constitutional authority to create sub-classifications inside the SC class, recognising its social heterogeneity. Following this, the Saini-led authorities in Haryana accredited the sub-classification resolution in its first cupboard assembly on October 18.
The Haryana State Fee for SCs had really useful dividing the SC reservation into two classes: Disadvantaged Scheduled Castes (DSC) and Different Scheduled Castes (OSC). The DSC class, which incorporates 36 castes resembling Dhanaks, Balmikis, Mazhabi Sikhs, and Khatiks, would obtain 50 % of the SC job quota, citing insufficient illustration in authorities jobs. Castes resembling Chamar, Jatia Chamar, Rehgar, Raigar, Ramdasi, Ravidasi, Jatav, Mochi, and Ramdasia would fall beneath OSC.
The cupboard had initially accredited the suggestions on August 17, later formalising the sub-classification resolution in its October 18 assembly, simply after the BJP’s third consecutive electoral win. In 2020, Haryana had additionally launched the Haryana Scheduled Castes (Reservation in Admission in Academic Establishments) Act, which reserved 50 % of the SC seats in increased training establishments for the DSC class.
Within the current meeting elections, the BJP gained eight of the 17 seats reserved for SCs, in comparison with 5 out of 17 in 2019.
