06-15-2006, 09:28 PM
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PIoneer.com
Rajeev Ranjan Roy | New Delhi
After quota in jobs and academic institutions for the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, there is a proposal to earmark 22.5 per cent of the total budget for their welfare. The sub-group of Ministers on the budgetary allocation has agreed on the budgetary quota, a development that would open a Pandora's Box for the Centre already beleaguered on the quota issue.
Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee is the chairman of the sub-group on the budgetary mechanism for the scheduled castes' special component plan. Sources said Union Fertilisers, Chemicals and Steel Minister<b> Ram Vilas Paswan raised the issue of 22.5 per cent quota for the SC/ST in the budget. "There was total unanimity over the issue in the meeting on Tuesday," </b>sources said.
<b>The day might not be far off when the OBC leaders too join the SC/ST bandwagon for 27 per cent share in the budget. At present, SC/ST have 22.5 per cent reservation in jobs and Government academic institutions. OBCs have 27 per cent quota in jobs, and the Centre now proposes to get them quota in Centrally funded academic institutions too</b>.
Talking to The Pioneer, Paswan said the Government would only ensure all round development of SC/STs by earmarking 22.5 per cent of the budget for their welfare. "The recommendation is in consonance with the spirit of the Government's objective behind setting up the Committee of Ministers on Dalit Affairs. There was total consensus on the matter in the meeting held."
Paswan, who chairs the sub-group of Ministers on the basic amenities for SC/STs in the rural and urban areas, said: "Our sub-group of Ministers recently decided to develop all villages with 50 per cent SC/ST population as the Prime Minister's Model Villages. Every such villages will have all the basic facilities."
Asserting the move would change the face of the country in five years time, Paswan, also the president of the Lok Janshakti Party, said: "There are around 38,000 villages where SC/ST population is up to 50 per cent. All these villages would be developed as the model villages in three phases. Planning Commission has agreed to finance the initiative."
According to him, these villages will have everything from primary schools and health centres, they would have phone and road connectivity too. "These villages would also have a residential school till the middle level class in every panchayat," he added. The sub-group also recommended setting up of a high school at the block level
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PIoneer.com
Rajeev Ranjan Roy | New Delhi
After quota in jobs and academic institutions for the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, there is a proposal to earmark 22.5 per cent of the total budget for their welfare. The sub-group of Ministers on the budgetary allocation has agreed on the budgetary quota, a development that would open a Pandora's Box for the Centre already beleaguered on the quota issue.
Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee is the chairman of the sub-group on the budgetary mechanism for the scheduled castes' special component plan. Sources said Union Fertilisers, Chemicals and Steel Minister<b> Ram Vilas Paswan raised the issue of 22.5 per cent quota for the SC/ST in the budget. "There was total unanimity over the issue in the meeting on Tuesday," </b>sources said.
<b>The day might not be far off when the OBC leaders too join the SC/ST bandwagon for 27 per cent share in the budget. At present, SC/ST have 22.5 per cent reservation in jobs and Government academic institutions. OBCs have 27 per cent quota in jobs, and the Centre now proposes to get them quota in Centrally funded academic institutions too</b>.
Talking to The Pioneer, Paswan said the Government would only ensure all round development of SC/STs by earmarking 22.5 per cent of the budget for their welfare. "The recommendation is in consonance with the spirit of the Government's objective behind setting up the Committee of Ministers on Dalit Affairs. There was total consensus on the matter in the meeting held."
Paswan, who chairs the sub-group of Ministers on the basic amenities for SC/STs in the rural and urban areas, said: "Our sub-group of Ministers recently decided to develop all villages with 50 per cent SC/ST population as the Prime Minister's Model Villages. Every such villages will have all the basic facilities."
Asserting the move would change the face of the country in five years time, Paswan, also the president of the Lok Janshakti Party, said: "There are around 38,000 villages where SC/ST population is up to 50 per cent. All these villages would be developed as the model villages in three phases. Planning Commission has agreed to finance the initiative."
According to him, these villages will have everything from primary schools and health centres, they would have phone and road connectivity too. "These villages would also have a residential school till the middle level class in every panchayat," he added. The sub-group also recommended setting up of a high school at the block level
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Next Paswan will ask for seperate country on caste basis with Muslim as King. <!--emo&:devil--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/devilsmiley.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='devilsmiley.gif' /><!--endemo-->