Responding to a BJP member’s request that quota benefits should be applied nation-wide like GST to backward classes (BC), the Centre said on Tuesday that it would examine the issue of a section of BCs not getting equal benefits of reservation in jobs and other opportunities despite remaining in the same schedule if they migrated to other states.
Union Minister for social justice and empowerment Rattan Lal Kataria said that under the existing scheme, an SC or OBC if migrated to another state is not entitled to reservation benefits of the migrated state but can get benefits in the state of origin and in the central government.
“We will examine the suggestion of the honourable member,” he said during Question Hour.
The reply came when BJP MP Praveen Kumar Nishad, MP from Sant Kabir Nagar, said despite remaining in the same schedule, some backward classes are not getting equal benefits of reservation in certain categories of jobs and other opportunities and quota benefits should be made “GST-type”. He said if they migrated from UP to Delhi, the benefits cease to apply.
The minister said instructions have been given by the Department of Personnel and Training for issuance and verification of castes certificates to SCs and OBCs throughout the country from time to time. The lists of SCs under the provision of Articles 341 of the Constitution and the central lists of the OBCs are state and union territory specific, he said.