The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Quota benefits have reached only 5 p.c. of people: Sadashiva

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Quota benefits have reached only 5 p.c. of people: Sadashiva

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INTERACTION: Former High Court judge A.J. Sadashiva (right) speaking with representatives of SC/ST communities in Bangalore on Thursday. — Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy

Bangalore: The benefits of the Government's reservation policy has reached only five per cent of those it is meant to reach, according to A.J. Sadashiva, former High Court judge, who heads the commission constituted to look into benefits accrued to the target groups.

At an interaction with the Scheduled Caste and the Scheduled Tribe groups here on Thursday, he said the commission headed by him would conduct a Statewide survey to study the extent to which reservation benefits were reaching the various sub-castes. The commission would submit a report to the Government after the survey.

Mr. Sadashiva said the survey would adopt a two-pronged approach. It would collect information from government departments to determine how various schemes were being implemented. It would also conduct a door-to-door survey to understand the social, economic, political, educational and cultural dynamics of the caste system. The door-to-door survey would be conducted by schoolteachers and it would start depending on their free time.

As many as 101 sub-castes were eligible for reservation benefits. While some of them had a population of up to 10 lakh, there were others that had less than 200 people, he said. The survey would also go into the findings of earlier commissions, Mr. Sadashiva said.

Some of the leaders who had come to make representations to the commission expressed dissatisfaction over reservation benefits not reaching those who were really in need of them. Leaders of the Karnataka State Adijaambava Sangha said that 101 sub-castes had benefited from reservation, while only Holeyas and Madigas were the most backward.

Of the 15 per cent reservation allocated to Scheduled Castes, only two per cent reached Holeyas and Madigas, they claimed. They also demanded that the quota be raised to 27 per cent, in accordance with the population ratio of the Scheduled Castes.

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