SCs to get 20% quota under outsourcing policy in Haryana

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 25

Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar today announced that 20 per cent reservation would be ensured for the Scheduled Castes (SCs) in recruitment under the outsourcing policy.

He was presiding over a meeting of the State-Level Vigilance and Monitoring Committee constituted under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Rules, 1995.

To provide timely financial assistance in cases of atrocities against the SCs, Khattar directed the officials concerned to release Rs 50 lakh to every district.

Haryana Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes Minister, Dr Banwari Lal, Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Anoop Dhanak, MP Sunita Duggal, and MLAs Varun Chaudhary, Satyaprakash Jarawat and Ramkaran Kala were also present at the meeting.

Khattar said reservation under outsourcing should be monitored at regular intervals.

He also instructed the officials that the meeting of the State Level Vigilance and Monitoring Committee should be held every six months.

Hoardings or banners should be put up in areas with high density of the Scheduled Caste people and at prime locations to make people aware of their rights, he said.

The CM said that every MP and MLA should organise seminars at regular intervals in their constituencies to educate people belonging to the Scheduled Caste about their rights. He added the reason behind atrocities against SCs in certain areas of the state should also be ascertained.