Quota demand: Karnataka govt forms panel under retired judge
Bengaluru, Mar 10: Karnataka government on Wednesday constituted a three-member high-level committee headed by a retired High Court judge Subhash Adi to look into demands by various communities in the state for revising the existing reservation and advise it.
"As per the decision of the Cabinet to examine the demands by various communities on reservation within the constitutional and legal framework, a high-level committee headed by retired High Court judge Subhash Adi has been constituted," Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa's office tweeted.
It said retired Chief Secretary Ratna Prabha and professor B V Vasanth Kumar, assistant professor at Maharani Arts College, Mysuru, would be its members.
The state Cabinet had, on March 3, decided to constitute the three-member high-level committee, and authorised the Chief Minister to make appointments to it.
Informing about the decision, Law Minister Basavaraj Bommai had said the retired judge would look into legal and constitutional aspects while the retired administrator would go into administrative aspect.
He had said there would also be a social scientist in the committee, which would give a comprehensive report.
Indicating that it was inevitable to breach the 50 per cent cap if demands are to be fulfilled, Bommai had said if it has to exceed 50 per cent, special criteria has to be identified and the committee would guide the government on this constitutionally and legally.
The state, at present, provides 15 per cent reservation for Scheduled Castes, three per cent for Scheduled Tribes and 32 per cent for the Other backward classes (OBCs), which add up to 50 per cent.
There are demands for revision of the existing quota from various communities led by seers or pontiffs, who have held protests.
The Veerashaiva-Lingayats are demanding OBC status under the central list, whereas the sub-sect of the community Panchamasali Lingayats wants to be put under Category 2A in the state quota.
The other dominant Vokkaliga community has decided to seek enhancement of reservation and wants all Vokkaliga sub-sects to be included under OBC.
On the other hand, the backward Kuruba community is seeking ST tag, the Valmiki community wants ST quota to be hiked from 3 per cent to 7.5 per cent.
ಸಚಿವ ಸಂಪುಟದ ತೀರ್ಮಾನದಂತೆ, ಮೀಸಲಾತಿ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಇರುವ ವಿವಿಧ ಬೇಡಿಕೆಗಳನ್ನು ಸಂವಿಧಾನಾತ್ಮಕವಾಗಿ ಹಾಗು ಕಾನೂನಾತ್ಮಕ ಚೌಕಟ್ಟಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಪರೀಶೀಲಿಸಲು ಹೈಕೋರ್ಟಿನ ನಿವೃತ್ತ ನ್ಯಾಯಾಧೀಶರಾದ ಸುಭಾಷ್ ಆಡಿ ರವರ ಅಧ್ಯಕ್ಷತೆಯಲ್ಲಿ, ನಿವೃತ್ತ ಮುಖ್ಯಕಾರ್ಯದರ್ಶಿ ಕೆ.ರತ್ನಪ್ರಭಾ ಮತ್ತು... (1/2)
— CM of Karnataka (@CMofKarnataka) March 10, 2021
ಮೈಸೂರು ಮಹಾರಾಣಿ ಕಲಾ ಕಾಲೇಜಿನ ಸಹ ಪ್ರಾಧ್ಯಾಪಕ ಡಾ|| ಬಿ.ವಿ.ವಸಂತಕುಮಾರ್ ಸದಸ್ಯರಾಗಿರುವ ಉನ್ನತ ಮಟ್ಟದ ಸಮಿತಿಯನ್ನು ರಚಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ. (2/2)
— CM of Karnataka (@CMofKarnataka) March 10, 2021
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Affront to non-Hindi speaking people: Chidambaram slams use of Hindi words in bills' names
New Delhi (PTI): Congress leader P Chidambaram has slammed the "increasing practice" of the government using Hindi words in the titles of the bills and said the change is an "affront" to the non-Hindi-speaking people.
Chidambaram said the non-Hindi-speaking people cannot identify a Bill/Act with titles that are in Hindi words written in English letters, and they cannot pronounce them.
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"I am opposed to the increasing practice of the government using Hindi words written in English letters in the title of the Bills to be introduced in Parliament," the former Union minister said late Monday night.
Hitherto, the practice was to write the title of the Bill in English words in the English version and in Hindi words in the Hindi version of the Bill, Chidambaram said.
"When no one pointed out any difficulty in the 75 year practice, why should government make a change?" he said.
"This change is an affront to non-Hindi speaking people and to States that have an official language other than Hindi," the Congress leader said.
Successive governments have reiterated the promise that English will remain an Associate Official Language, Chidambaram said.
"I fear that promise is in danger of being broken," the Congress MP said.
