The Odisha Pachhua Barga Bikash Manch would hold a convention of Other Backward Class (OBC) people on December 5 at the Jayadev Bhawan here to discuss the Government’s dillydallying attitude in ensuring a 27-per cent reservation to the OBC people in jobs.
Manch president Krushna Chandra Prusty told a Press conference that now only an 11.25-per cent reservation facility is available for the OBC section. “The State Government in its OBC Reservation Act-2008 had made a provision of 27 per cent reservation for OBC people. But the same is yet to the executed,” said Prusty.
Manch members also demanded that the State Government constitute an OBC commission. The convention would discuss several issues faced by the OBC community in the State.
lawyers, youths, women, administrators, doctors and political leaders from different parts of the State would participate in the convention.
Among others, Manch general secretary Saroj Kumar Behera and executive president Dhuleswar Mania also spoke at the Press meet.