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Be it an eye on 2018 assembly elections or serious concern for the deprived section of the society, Karnataka Government is seriously mulling over 70% reservation in employment and education which is 1% more than its neighbouring counterpart Tamil Nadu.
But in view of the Supreme Court, keeping the reservation at 50%, the move will need a constitutional amendment by Parliament of India. The Chief Minister of the state Siddaramaiah, who ordered a survey to study the economic and social backwardness of different castes in the state, has put forward to move a resolution in the upcoming legislature session.
Replying to V S Ugrappa, a member of legislative council, on Tuesday, 6 December 2016, the Chief Minister said that if the state has to increase the reservation somebody has to forward a resolution in the legislature and it has to be constitutionally amended in Parliament .
The Chief Minister agreed to take the initiative and move the resolution. The caste survey report is supposed to be submitted to the Karnataka Government either in December 2016 or January 2017. Siddaramaiah also said that its neighbour Tamil Nadu's 69% reservation in employment and education had been put in the ninth schedule after a constitutional amendment.
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The CM also informed that no caste survey had undertaken after 1931. He got the idea to have a study conducted on social and the economic backwardness of all castes after the SC gave a ruling on the Mandal Commission in 1992.
Siddaramaiah said that the ruling BJP at the centre did not support the report of Mandal Commission and the move of former Union minister Arjun Singh's decision to offer reservation in higher education. Justice M Rama Jois, BJP MP in Rajya Sabha had filed a petition in the Apex Court questioning the hike in the reservation.
