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| OBC district body demands sub plan | | | Early Times Report
Rajouri, Oct 4: Other Backward Classes (OBC) district body held a meeting at Dak Banglow Rajouri under the chairmanship Abdul Majeed Qureshi alleged that Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe people have been given special sub plan but the OBC people have been ignored.
Abdul Majeed Qureshi demanded an extensive sub plan which shall be sanctioned for their overall development. He further demanded enhancement of reservation in Jammu and Kashmir at par with other States.
He said according to the caste based census of 1931, the population of OBC was more than 35 percent but only 2 percent reservation has been given to them by the State Government on nomenclature of other social castes.
"This is a great injustice and needs to be given reservation at par with the Central Government i.e. 27 percent so that these poor and deserving people could also be benefited," he added.
Regarding political reservation, Qureshi demanded reservation in both the houses of the Legislative Assembly and Legislative council.
"There is no representation from OBC in either of the Houses in the State Legislature although they constitute more than one-fourth of the total population of Jammu and Kashmir," |
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