Bihar Assembly unanimously passes the amendment bill related to increasing the quota of reservation

Bihar Assembly yesterday unanimously passed the amendment bill related to increasing the quota of reservation in the state government jobs for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Extremely Backward Caste and other Backward Castes from 50 % to 65% . Opposition BJP also supported the amendment bill.

 

After the release of Caste Based Survey 2022, the state government has decided to increase the reservation quota for SCs, STs, EBCs and Backward Castes in government jobs in proportion to the increase of their population.

 

The bill has proposed the new paradigm of reservation quota in which the BCs would get 18 per cent quota, EBCs 25 per cent, Scheduled Castes 20 per cent and Scheduled Tribes 2 per cent.

 

In the state, 10 per cent EWS quota has been earmarked for the poor among the general



category and it has been not changed. The total quota limit will be effectively up to 75 per cent now and  25 per cent will remain unreserved.

 

The Bihar Reservation Amendment Bill for SCs, STs, EBCs and other BCs was introduced by State parliamentary Affairs Minister Vijay Kumar Choudhary. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar expressed gratitude to BJP for supporting the bill. He also said that the government would like to implement it very quickly.

 

On the same line, the Lower House also passed the Amendment Bill unanimously to increase reservation quota for admission in government educational institutions to 65 percent for SCs, STs, EBCs and other BCs. The pattern for reservation quota has been fixed as per reservation in government jobs for these castes.