Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren (file photo).

Ranchi:

On Wednesday, the cabinet of Hemant Soren government has taken two important decisions in Jharkhand.

A provision has been made in the local policy of 1932 and the quota of OBC has been increased by changing the reservation policy.

A cabinet meeting was held on Wednesday under the chairmanship of CM Hemant Soren.

43 proposals have been approved in the cabinet meeting.

Cabinet Secretary Vandana Dadel gave this information.

Jharkhand's Hemant Soren government on Wednesday decided to make the 1932 Khatian as the basis for determining the 'locality' in the state amid the looming threat of political instability in the state.

Along with this, the government has decided to give 27 percent reservation to Backward Classes (OBCs) in the government jobs of the state instead of the existing 14 percent, as well as to increase the reservation of AC and ST category by two percent each.

With the implementation of the decision of the government, the total reservation of OBC, Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) in the state will be 77 percent.

Jharkhand government's cabinet secretary Vandana Dadel told a press conference here on Wednesday that decisions to this effect were taken in the state cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Hemant Soren.

He said that the cabinet has decided to introduce a separate bill in the state assembly to decide the policy of 'locality' on the basis of the letter of 1932 and to reserve a total of 77 percent government jobs for different classes, including 27 percent reservation for backward classes. granted approval of.

He said that the state cabinet also decided to get both the bills related to both the decisions passed by the assembly and send them to the central government after the approval of the governor.

Dadel said that the cabinet decided to request the central government to include both these laws in the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution so that they cannot be challenged in any court of the country.

He said that the name of the new bill to be brought to amend the policy of locality is 'Definition and identification of local residents of Jharkhand for definition of local people of Jharkhand and to extend the resultant social, cultural and other benefits to such local persons'. Bill 2022'.

Vandana Dadel said that through this bill, the local people will be defined in the state and according to today's cabinet decision, now whose name or whose ancestor's name will be recorded in the Khatian of 1932 in the state, only those people will be considered as local residents.

He told that those who do not have their own land or property, they will have to get the proof of being a resident of the state before 1932 from their Gram Sabha.

Apart from this, the state cabinet decided to make the total reservation for different classes up to 77 percent.

He said that the Cabinet decided to introduce in the Vidhan Sabha the 'Jharkhand Reservation in Vacancies in Posts and Services: For Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward Classes: Bill 2022 to amend the Act 2001', in which state jobs for the Scheduled Castes. There will be a provision to increase the reservation percentage from 10 percent to 12 percent, for Scheduled Tribes from 26 percent to 28 percent and for backward classes from 14 percent to 27 percent.

He said that the cabinet decided to make a provision of ten percent reservation for the economically weaker general category in the state through this proposed bill.

In the previous classes, it has been decided to make 15 percent reservation for the extremely backward and 12 percent for the backward classes.

The tribal organizations of the state had continuously demanded to base 1932 Khatian on the locality policy because according to them the land records of the state were last surveyed by the British government in 1932.

Earlier, the Raghuvar Das government of Jharkhand, while deciding the policy of locality, had considered 1985 as a divisive year to decide the locality of the state in the year 2016, against which Jharkhand Mukti Morcha had staged a big protest.

It is believed that the Chief Minister Hemant Soren government is under threat due to allotment of mining lease in his name in the state, so he has taken politically important policy decisions.

It is believed that the Election Commission had sent its decision regarding his assembly membership to the Governor on August 25, but the Governor has not yet given his decision in this regard, due to which the state government is in a state of doubt for the last almost three weeks. Is.

The ruling party alleges that by creating such a state of suspicion, efforts are being made to horse-trade MLAs in the state, so that the government can be destabilized.

Talking to the media at the Secretariat after the cabinet meeting, Soren said, "The state government has taken many historic decisions today.

The state has decided today that the Khatian of 1932 will be applicable here.

Backward in the state will get 27 percent reservation in government jobs.

Employees will get their due in this state.


He alleged that the opposition was polluting the atmosphere regarding the stability of his government.

"I want to assure that there is no threat to my government," Sorene claimed.