Chandigarh moots 27% job, admission quota for OBCs

Chandigarh, February 28

On the recommendation of the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC), the UT Administration proposed 27% reservation for OBCs in employment in various departments and admission in various educational institutions in the city.

A draft policy was sent to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) for 27% reservation for OBCs in employment and admission in various departments, boards, corporations, educational institutions, engineering colleges and medical institutes, etc, in Chandigarh.

The information was disclosed during a review meeting held under the chairmanship of Hansraj Gangaram Ahir of the NCBC on welfare measures undertaken to secure representation of OBCs in employment and admission in departments, boards, corporations and institutions. The meeting was held with the UT Home Secretary and other senior officials of the Administration.

Earlier, in a meeting convened by the Secretary, Technical Education, UT, on August 18 last year, a committee was constituted under the chairmanship of the Home Secretary-cum-Secretary Social Welfare for formulation and finalisation of the “Draft policy for OBCs in admission to all educational institutes of the Chandigarh Administration”.

Three meetings of the committee were held on August 21, October 9 and November 8 and a final draft policy for reservation for OBCs and BCs in admission duly vetted by the Department of Technical Education and the Law Department was sent to the MHA for its administrative approval on November 22. The MHA later sought certain clarifications on December 4 regarding “courses and colleges that come under the purview of educational, professional, technical and medical institutes of the UT of Chandigarh”.

The related information was collected from the departments of technical education, higher education, school education and medical education and sent to the ministry on February 1 with a request to provide administrative approval on the draft policy.