The BJP on Tuesday submitted a memorandum to the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) urging for its intervention to ensure adequate reservation for the OBC and SEBC categories in jobs and education in Odisha.
“By virtue of Sections 15(4) and 16(4), the Union Government is providing 27-per cent reservation to OBC people in jobs and education. The Supreme Court has also upheld it. It is disappointing that the Odisha Government has not implemented the reservation even after 30 years of its implementation in the country,” alleged Krushak Morcha State general secretary Surath Biswal.
He said that while all States have executed 27-per reservation to OBC people, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Bihar are providing more percentage of reservation to this category in view of its big share in the population. Tamil Nadu is giving 50-per cent reservation to the OBC category.
He too alleged that the Odisha State Commission for Backward Classes Act has not been implemented since it was passed in 1993.
A team comprising BJP State general secretary Ranjan Patel, Hitesh Bagarty, Maheshwar Sahoo, Sanat Gadtia, Gokulandana Mallick, Jugal Padha and Pradeep Sahoo submitted the memorandum.