NEW DELHI: There is no proposal currently to increase the percentage of reservation, Union Minister Thaawar Chand Gehlot said today.
Though there was a demand for increasing the percentage of quota, the Supreme Court has ordered that it cannot be raised beyond 50 per cent, Gehlot said in the Lok Sabha while replying to a debate on the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Orders (Amendment) Bill, 2017.
He also asserted that the “BJP is supportive of the reservation and it will always be in future.”
“Everybody feels that there should be an increase in the (quota) percentage … But there is no possibility. Some say that Parliament can increase it, but in the current scenario, the ministry does not have any such proposal,” he said. The prevailing reservation limit is 49.5 per cent. (AGENCIES)
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