Chandigarh, January 31: The Haryana Cabinet which met under the Chairmanship of Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal at New Delhi today approved the Draft Bill titled ‘The Haryana Scheduled Castes (Reservation in Admission in Educational institutions) Bill, 2020’.
The Bill provides reservation of 50 per cent seats to the Deprived Scheduled Castes out of the total 20 per cent seats reserved for Scheduled Castes in the graduation and post-graduation level courses in educational institutions maintained by the government or receiving aid out of the State funds. It also includes government and government aided technical and professional institutions.
Deprived Scheduled Castes includes all those 36 castes which were part of Block A, SC . These include Ad Dharmi, Balmiki, Bazigar, Dhanak, Khatik, Mazhabi, Mazhabi Sikh, Od, Sapela, Sapera, Sikriband, Bhanjra, Bawaria, Barar etc.
As per employees data collected, the total number of the SC employees in the State is nearly 22 per cent of the total strength. However, in respect of representation in various services, the erstwhile Block A Scheduled Castes representation in Group-A, Group-B and Group-C services is only 4.7 per cent, 4.14 per cent and 6.27 per cent respectively, though their population is about 11 per cent of the total State population. As for the erstwhile Block B Scheduled Castes (who are also about 11 per cent of the total State population) the representation in Group A, Group B and Group C services is 11 per cent, 11.31 per cent and 11.8 per cent respectively.
It was informed in the meeting that the Block A Scheduled Castes or the Deprived Scheduled Castes are not so educationally qualified as the data from SECC 2011 indicates that only 2.13 per cent population of the Deprived Scheduled Castes is graduate, 3.78 per cent of them are Senior Secondary and 6.74 per cent are matriculate. Besides, 33.63 per cent of them are illiterate. This makes them a distinct class of citizens who are deprived of their constitutional right of equality due to lack of education. Therefore, it was decided to provide such reservation in admission to candidates belonging to Deprived Scheduled Castes. Now, they will get reservation of 50 per cent seats out of the total 20 per cent seats reserved for Scheduled Castes in the graduation and post-graduation level courses in educational institutions maintained by the government or receiving aid out of the State funds.
Where the seats offered to Deprived Scheduled Castes for admission at the graduation and post-graduation level in educational institutions are not filled up in any academic year due to non-availability of candidates of Deprived Scheduled Castes possessing the requisite qualifications, the same shall, after the display of the final list of such admissions for that year be made available to candidates of Scheduled Castes by the educational institutions. If no candidate either from Deprived Scheduled Castes or the Scheduled Castes is available to fill one or more of the 20 per cent seats, such seats shall be filled from amongst the applicants of general category.