Bhubaneswar: There will be no reservations for the classes back in the opinuous three-level Panchayat selection to comply with the latest direction from the Supreme Court and the Orissa High Court.
Citing two commands of the Supreme Court was recently issued on December 6 and December 17, the Orissa High Court on Wednesday said, “There is no reservation provided for BCCS (backward class residents) at Pos Sarpanches in Odisha in the election.
Therefore, no Can be avoided for the Odisha Government to work back the notification concept to hold general elections to Pancayat, Panchayat Samitis and Zilla Parishads in 2022.
“SC has lived a back class reservation (OBC) in the local body selection in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh stated that” triple tests “It must be followed for the OBC quota – establishing a special commission to conduct strict empirical investigations into the properties and implications of retardation, determine the proportion of orders needed to provide local bodies in the light of the Commission’s recommendations and ensure the order will not exceed 50% of the total seats Provided in supporting SCS / STS / OBCS that are put together.
“Without assigning commissions and compiling contemporary empirical data to ensure the extent to which ordering is needed to be given wisely locally, it is not open to the State Election Commission to provide reservations for the OBC category despite the provisions of the law in that matter,” the Supreme Court has said at 6 December when hearing a case (Rahul Ramesh Wagh vs.
State of Maharashtra & others).
“Although Odisha formed the OBC Commission (in February 2020), the test of the two commissions, made recommendations to determine the percentage of orders that must be made after collecting data, it has not been fulfilled until now,” the bench of the Main Justice High Court.
S Muridhar and Justice Ak Mohapatra observed.
A government officer said the state would continue the election of Panchayat without the OBC quota by reworking the reservations of the environment and post-wise on January 7.
“Notification of polls and voting can be delayed about one week to 10 days.
From the original schedule,” said the State Election Commission official.
To accommodate the quota for OBC in the election for Panchayat and urban bodies, the state has passed the Bill, 2021 Amendment) Odisha Law (Amendment) of the Odisha City (Amendment) of Bill, 2021, while maintaining the overall quota in the election Local body in 50%.