Constitutional amendment on reservation on the cards

NEW DELHI, AUG 16: The Government will move a Constitution amendment in the Lok Sabha to offset technical problems created in the implemen...

NEW DELHI, AUG 16: The Government will move a Constitution amendment in the Lok Sabha to offset technical problems created in the implementation of the reservation policy by five office memoranda issued in 1997, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pramod Mahajan said today.

Responding to members’ concern during the Zero Hour in the Lok Sabha, Mahajan said he would bring to the notice of the Prime Minister and the Personnel Minister complaints about non-implementation of provisions of an earlier Constitutional amendment passed by Parliament to remove certain hurdles in the policy brought about by the 1997 memoranda.

Raising the issue, Pravinchandra Rashtrapal (Cong) and Ramdas Athawale (Independent) demanded that the Government should fulfil its assurance of bringing forward a reservation act to ensure that such difficulties did not not arise in future.

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