Karnataka reservation roster: SC/ST, OBC quota at 56 per cent, general merit 44 per cent
Bengaluru (PTI): Karnataka government on Wednesday issued an order prescribing a new reservation roster, which clarifies that the quantum of reservation for SC/STs and OBCs in the state for jobs and education stood at 56 per cent.
While the reservation for Scheduled Castes (SC) is 17 percent, it is 7 per cent for Scheduled Tribes (ST) and 32 per cent for Other Backward Classes (OBC). The general merit category will have a 44 per cent share.
The new reservation roster under which all government recruitment must happen, has been issued following the Congress government recently deciding on internal reservation, slicing up the 17 per cent reservation matrix given to 101 SCs.
The internal reservation provided among SCs is: Group A (SC Left/Madigas) and Group B (SC Right / Holeya) reservation of 6 per cent each, and Group C (Banjara, Bhovi, Korma, Korcha and most backward communities) 5 per cent.
Though the previous BJP government's decision in 2022-23 to increase SC reservation from 15 to 17 per cent and for ST reservation from 3 to 7 per cent had taken the overall reservation in the state to 56 per cent, breaching the 50 per cent cap, the issue of internal reservation was not settled at that time.
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Fire in coach of New Delhi-Chennai express train; no casualty
Nagpur (PTI): A coach of the New Delhi-Chennai Grant Trunk Express caught fire in Maharashtra's Wardha district on Tuesday morning, railway officials said.
There were no casualties, they said.
Train 12616 New Delhi-Chennai (Tambaram) Grant Trunk Express left from Nagpur in the morning. While it was heading towards Sindi railway station in Wardha, smoke was detected in the last guard coach of the train at 11.09 am, Central Railway spokesperson Sanjay Muley told PTI.
The train was stopped on the Sindi-Tuljapur section, the affected coach was detached immediately, and the fire brigade was called, he said.
All passengers in the train and the coach concerned were safe, the official said.
The cause of the fire will be known after a detailed investigation.
The train will resume its journey in some time without the affected coach, the official added.
