According to this proposal, the existing 16 percent reservation for Scheduled Castes (SC) will be increased to 20 percent.
Scheduled Tribe (ST) will be increased from 1 percent to 2 percent. 43 percent reservation will be given to Extremely Backward Classes (EBC) and Other Backward Classes (OBC) together. Earlier there was a provision of 3 percent reservation for women, which has now been abolished.
Bihar creates history, 1 lakh 20 thousand teachers get appointment letters, CM Nitish announces bumper government jobs.
The country’s first caste economic survey was presented in the Bihar Assembly on Tuesday. This report tells how much poverty there is in which class and which caste. According to the report, 33.16% of poor households belong to backward class, 25.09% to general class, 33.58% to extremely backward class, 42.93% to SC and 42.7% to ST.
On a caste-based survey, Bihar Minister Vijay Kumar Chaudhary says in the Assembly, “In our survey, the literacy rate in Bihar is 79.70%. Females have a higher literacy rate than males… In Bihar, there are 953 females for every 1000 males… pic.twitter.com/W1t8OVRx4g
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7 castes of Hindu and Muslim religion are included in upper caste
The castes that the Bihar government has included in the upper castes include 7 castes of Hindu and Muslim religion. Among the general category, Bhumihar is the poorest with 25.32%. Kayasth is the richest with 13.83% of poor population. At the same time, the Yadav caste is the poorest among the backward classes.
“Those who write the script…”, the JDU chief targeted Amit Shah for questioning the caste survey data.
The caste census figures were released on 2 October
Nitish Kumar released the caste census figures on 2 October. A day after that, an all-party meeting was held under the chairmanship of CM Nitish Kumar. In which Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM along with RJD, JDU, Congress and the three left parties demanded to increase the scope of reservation based on the survey.
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Uproar by BJP MLAs
As soon as the proceedings of the Bihar Assembly began on Tuesday, the BJP started a ruckus. The BJP MLAs came to Vel creating a ruckus. BJP MLAs are besieging the government over the protest of Anganwadi workers. Meanwhile, Leader of Opposition Vijay Sinha raised questions about the use of police force on the maids. He said that the government will have to give an answer in this regard.
In Patna, RJD workers put up posters calling Tejashwi Yadav as ‘Future Chief Minister’.