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In order to provide a legal framework for internal reservation announced on the basis of the Justice H N Nagamohan Das Commission’s recommendations, the Government tabled the Karnataka Scheduled Castes (Sub-Classification) Bill 2025 in the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday.
The development follows the Cabinet last week approving the Government’s decision to divide the 17 per cent Scheduled Caste (SC) reservation for 101 communities into three categories. Under this, 16 “SC left” communities get six per cent reservation under Category A, 19 “SC right” communities get six per cent reservation under Category B, and 63 other SC communities, which include “touchable” communities, get five per cent reservation under Category C. Three non-categorised SC castes—Adi Andhra, Adi Dravida, and Adi Karnataka—will be eligible to opt for reservation under Category A or Category B.
When taken up for discussion, the Bill is expected to face opposition as the SC nomadic tribes, who number around seven lakh, have been left out of the reservation matrix.
Apart from this Bill, Social Welfare Minister H C Mahadevappa also piloted the Karnataka State Commission for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Amendment) Bill 2025. The key amendment proposed by the Bill aims to empower the Karnataka State Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes “to recommend to the Government the necessary modification in the reservation percentage of sub-classification to the members of the Scheduled Castes on the receipt of new data or information from the Government”.
This amendment is being largely interpreted as a provision made by the Government to address the row over dropping nomadic tribes from the reservation matrix, by empowering the commission to tweak the 6-6-5 internal reservation formula announced for SC communities.
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