HARYANA’S ‘QUOTA WITHIN SC QUOTA’ FOR COLLEGE ADMISSIONS
March 15, 2020
The Haryana Assembly has passed a Bill to split the 20% quota for Scheduled Castes (SCs) in the state’s higher educational institutions into two, creating a quota within the quota for a new group of “Deprived Scheduled Castes”.
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The Deprived Scheduled Castes category has 36 communities including Valmiki, Bazigar, Sansi, Deha, Dhanak, and Sapera.
Section 3(1) of The Haryana Scheduled Castes (Reservation in Admission in Government Educational Institutions) Act, 2020 lays down that “20 per cent seats shall be reserved for the members of the Scheduled Castes (SCs) while making admission.”
Section 3(2) says: “50 per cent of the 20 per cent seats reserved for SCs for admission in any Government educational institution shall be set aside for candidates belonging to deprived SCs as enumerated in the Annexure”.
Section 4 says that “Where a seat set aside for candidate from Deprived SCs is not filled up in any academic year due to non-availability of candidate of deprived SCs possessing the requisite qualifications, the same shall be made available to candidate of SCs.”
The government argues that the representation of the Scheduled Castes now categorised as “Deprived Scheduled Castes” is “only 4.7%, 4.14% and 6.27% in Group A, Group B and Group C services respectively, even though their population is about 11% of the total State population.
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