Recently Bihar Assembly has increased the reservation available in the state to 75%.

Recently Bihar Assembly has increased the reservation available in the state to 75%.

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Category : National Published on: November 14 2023

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In November, 2023, Bihar Assembly has increased the reservation available in the state to 65%.
This reservation has been passed unanimously by the Assembly.
In this new reservation, Other Backward Classes (OBC) and Extremely Backward Classes (EBC) will get 43% reservation.
Also, there will be 20% reservation for Scheduled Caste (SC) and 2% for Scheduled Tribe (ST).
Apart from this, provision of 10% reservation has also been made for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS).
With this, reservation in jobs and education in Bihar has now increased to 75%.
At present OBC and EBC get 30% reservation in Bihar.
There is a quota of 18% OBC and 12% EBC. That is, now the Nitish government has passed a proposal to increase their quota by 13%.
It has been proposed to increase the SC quota from 16% to 20%.
The government has proposed to increase the ST quota from 1% to 2%.
In the year 1992, in the Indira Sawhney case, the Supreme Court had ruled that reservation cannot exceed 50%.

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