Bihar Reservation Information: Bihar Caste Quota: Bihar meeting passes Invoice to hike caste quota reservations from 50% to 65% | India Information

NEW DELHI: The Bihar meeting on Thursday handed the Reservation Modification Invoice unanimously via a voice vote. The Invoice will elevate the quota for SCs, STs, Different Backward Courses and Extraordinarily Backward Courses to a complete of 65 per cent from the present 50 per cent.

In response to the payments, the quota for STs can be doubled, from one to 2 per cent, whereas for SCs it will likely be raised from 16 per cent to twenty per cent.For EBCs, the quota can be 25 per cent, up from 18 per cent, whereas for the OBCs, it is going to rise from 12 per cent to fifteen per cent.
The Caste Survey report had revealed that OBCs (27.13 per cent) and the extraordinarily backward courses sub-group (36 per cent) account for a whopping 63 per cent of the state’s complete of 13.07 crore, whereas SCs and STs collectively have been barely over 21 per cent.
Bihar has about 2.97 crore households out of which greater than 94 lakh (34.13 per cent) stay on an revenue of Rs 6,000 or much less a month.