New Delhi: With Other Backward Classes (OBCs) Reservation Bill getting the approval in the assembly, certain percentage of seats in private as well as public sector will be stamped for OBC category. The reservation will be appliclicable for admission in educational institutions and in the field of employment. Equal opportunity is also expected out of this motion for all the castes of this category, as stated in the provisions of the reservation policy.
As per sources,the OBC reservation motion moved under Rule 107 by Congress MLA Mukesh Sharma on Wednesday, passed in the Delhi Assembly after Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, assured that OBC reservation would be fully implemented in Delhi in a couple of years. Mr Sharma, while moving the motion, said that the Delhi government has notified 65 castes as OBCs and the year 2000 saw Jats also appearing in the reservation list.
Furthermore, Mr Sharma said that after the state government included them in the OBC list, they should have readily got reservation in the Delhi University (DU), which did not happen, as the Central OBC list does not include them. He urged the Chief Minister to take up the matter with the Commission and the Prime Minister harping on the need for the National OBC Commission to act upon this.
According to Mr Sharma, until the OBCs acquire more government jobs, their social growth would be stagnant. He also emphasized the need to do well academically to move ahead in the social ladder, which is one of the reasons for the Congress MLA to seek an increase in reservation from 15% earlier to 27% now in the nursery training. He also added that the creamy layer in the OBCs needs to be strained, so that those who are actually capable of the position would be given a chance.
Mr Sharma insisted that even if this is not possible in this academic session, the government should ply ways to implement 27% reservation in all Delhi government institutes in a timeline of, say, one or two years.
