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Kochi | Posted on Jan 06, 2012 at 10:07am IST
SC/ST to get quota in Kudumbashree bodies
indianexpress Express News Service , The New Indian Express
KOCHI: Aimed at giving more opportunities to the Scheduled Castes (SC)
and Scheduled Tribes (ST), the Kudumbashree Mission will provide
reservation to these categories in the elections to be conducted to
the neighbourhood groups (NHG), area development societies (ADS) and
community development societies (CDS).
This is for the first time that reservation is being given to the
SC/ST communities in the elections to the various bodies of the
Kudumbashree, sources in the Department of Local Self-Government said.
The government has issued a notification in this regard and the
reservation will be implemented in the coming elections. The last
elections to the NHGs, ADSs and CDSs were held in 2008. The election
to the CDSs will be held from January 15 to 20 as per the current
notification regarding reservations.
However, the elections to the ADSs scheduled from January 5 to 10 will
be held according to the old norms. The elections to the NHGs were
also held as per the previous system.� In rural areas, 126 CDSs have
been reserved for the SCs and 57 for the STs. In urban areas, 13 CDSs
have been reserved for the SCs and one for the STs. Fifteen per cent
of the seats are reserved for the SC category and five per cent for
the ST category in the rural CDSs, excluding Idukki, Wayanad and
Palakkad districts. For qualifying for reservation, a CDS should have
at least 20 per cent SC members. For the ST reservation, a CDS should
have at least three per cent ST members. Idukki, Wayanad and Palakkad
districts were given special consideration by forming separate norms.
In Idukki district, the rural CDSs having more than 40 per cent SC
members will be reserved for them and the CDSs having 10 per cent ST
members will be reserved for the ST category.
In Palakkad district, rural CDSs having more than 30 per cent SC
members have been reserved for them and CDSs having four per cent ST
members have been reserved for the ST category. In Wayanad Rural, CDSs
having more than 15 per cent SC people have been reserved for them and
the CDSs having 20 per cent ST members have been reserved for the ST
category. In urban areas, 13 CDSs having 20 per cent SC members have
been reserved for the SC category. Kalpetta Urban CDS has been
reserved for the ST category. Kudumbashree programme officer K
Jagjeevan said the government had initiated this move to ensure social
justice.
"Kudumbashree election is a major event for the government as around
50 per cent of people in the state are part of the organisation. The
reservation is aimed at bringing SC and ST communities to the
leadership of the organisation," Jagjeevan said.
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