MH-ASSEMBLY-LD MARATHA QUOTA


PTI | Mumbai | Updated: 29-11-2018 14:05 IST | Created: 29-11-2018 14:05 IST
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Maharashtra Assembly Thursday

unanimously passed a bill proposing 16 per cent reservation

for Marathas under socially and educationally backward

category.

Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who tabledthe bill,

thanked Opposition members for helping in passage of the bill

unanimously.

The bill provides for reservation of seats for

admissionin educational institutions and posts in public

services to Marathas whohave been declared as socially and

educationally backward class of citizens.

Earlier, Fadnavis also tabled the action taken report

(ATR) on the State Backward Class Commission's (SBCC)

recommendations for reservation to the Maratha community in

government jobs and education.

He also tabled the recommendations of the SBCC's

report on social, educational and financial status of the

Maratha community.

Marathas have been declared as socially and

educationally backward class of citizens (SEBC) and have

inadequate representation in services under the state, the

panel report said.

They are entitled to reservation benefits and

advantages enshrined in the Articles 15(4) and 16(4) of the

Constitution, it said.

The panel had suggested that looking at exceptional

circumstances and extra-ordinary situations generated on

declaring Marathas as socially and educationally backward and

their consequential entitlement to reservation benefits, the

government may take appropriate decision within constitutional

provision to address the emerging scenario in the state.

The Bill to provide for reservation of seats for

admission in educational institutions and posts in public

services in the state was tabled thereafter.

The Maratha community, which comprises over 30 per

cent of the state's population, has been seeking reservation

in government jobs and education for a long time. Their stir

for the same in July and August this year had taken a violent

turn.

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