BENGALURU: The Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms (DPAR) on Wednesday issued an order to fix the revised reservation for the direct recruitment to fill vacancies in the state civil services, clearing the deck for the implementation of internal reservation for 101 Scheduled Caste (SC) communities following the government’s order on August 25.
Recruitments had been frozen for over a year waiting for the government’s decision on internal quota for SCs.
The order has been published in the state gazette.
The DPAR order relieved aspirants aiming to join state government services. The DPAR order stated that 43 departments can start recruitments in a phased manner to fill around 2.76 lakh vacancies. Around 25,000-40,000 posts will be filled in the first phase. The priority are the health, education, and revenue departments.
The Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) and Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA) will initiate the process.
The DPAR order made it clear that the roster for the 17% SC quota should be maintained with 6% each for category A, comprising SC Left (Madigas) and related castes, 6% to category B, comprising SC Right (Chalavadi), and 5% to category C, comprising Bhovis, Lambanis, Korachas, Koramas, and 59 nomadic communities. The DPAR order is applicable in education facilities too, especially for professional courses like medicine, engineering, and agricultural sciences, with the respective categories getting their due share.
Earlier, the 101 SC castes were under one category. While some castes had a lion’s share of the benefits of reservation, the marginalised were left in the lurch. Even under the new reservation matrix, the 59 nomadic SC ‘most backward’ castes are unhappy that they are placed in category C, which comprises the four ‘least backward’ castes.
The Justice HN Nagamohan Das Commission, which looked into SC internal reservation, had formed five categories — A, B, C, D, and E — and proposed 6% for SC Left, 5% for SC Right, 4% for Lambanis, Koramas, Korachas, and Bhovis, 1% for nomadic tribes, and 1% for Adi Karnataka, Adi Dravida, and Adi Andhra, but the Cabinet adopted a slightly altered formula and categorised them into three categories — A, B, and C.
Karnataka’s quota matrix for 100%
Category I-4%
Category IIA-15
Category IIB-4
Category IIIA-4
Category IIIB-5
SC category A-6
SC category B-6
SC category C-5
ST-7
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