Bhubaneshwar: The Naveen Patnaik government seems to try hard to convince people that it does not want to reduce the OBC quota but forced to do so to obey the legal provisions while passing two bills on Tuesday and Wednesday, the selection of urban and rural agencies at 50%.
In “Business Listings,” The State Assembly on Wednesday has mentioned that Jagannath Saraka, the development of the welfare of ST and SC and the Welfare Class backward, will move resolutions at home to suppress the center to increase the number of 50% ceiling on the quota accommodate backward quotas 27 %.
The plan is to graduate with a round resolution to ask the Odisha State Commission for the backward class to urge the center to calm the quota cap and do the OBC census.
Resolution cannot be passed due to interference in the home process.
Possibility may appear again on Thursday.
Moving the government came after passing the Law of Odisha City (Amendment) of the Bill 2021 on Tuesday and the Law of Odisha Panchayat (Amendment) of the Bill 2021, which reduced the OBC quota to comply with court directives from the overall limit on the order for SCS, STS, and OBCS.
The Orissa High Court in April 2018 said the overall quota in local agency elections could not exceed 50%.
According to the amendment bill, the OBC quota can still increase by 27%, subject to the overall quota that does not exceed 50%.
Given that the quota for SCS and STS will progress with a population, the share of OBC in most districts will be around 10% and even zero in at least seven districts dominated by tribes.
While the government planned a resolution of the house after the bill passed, BJD parliamentarians had met with Minister Amit Shah last month pressing the central law to remove 50% stamp on the quota and to hold Caste Census.
Jayanat Mohapatra, a former professor of political science at the whole university, said the government articulated “political intentions” by often seeking central legislation to release a quota hat by 50% when passing the bill is legal necessity.