Raipur:Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to get the Census conducted while setting a separate code for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs), an official said on Tuesday.
In a letter to PM Modi on Tuesday, Baghel said necessary initiatives and decisions should be taken at the earliest on the reservation for OBCs.
In April 2023, the CM said, he had requested for 27 per cent reservation for the OBCs in public employment and admissions in educational institutions in Chhattisgarh and the inclusion of this issue under the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution.
“I am sure you will agree that it is necessary to provide reservation to the larger population of OBCs, who have been deprived of socio-political rights for centuries. Such a decision is necessary to keep up the spirit of equality and social justice provided by the Constitution,” he said in the letter. Baghel said the Chhattisgarh assembly in December 2022 unanimously passed a Bill to implement 32 per cent, 13 per cent, 27 per cent and 4 per cent for reservations for those from the Scheduled Tribes (ST), Scheduled Castes (SC), OBCs and Economically Weaker Sections (EWS), respectively.
However, the bill is still “pending for approval in the Governor House”, he said.