Mr. Baghel also requested to shift the headquarter of NMDC from Hyderabad to Jagdalpur to provide employment opportunities to the local unemployed.
The Chief Minister said – on an important and sensitive subject like reservation for OBCs, without further delay, try to take necessary initiatives and take a positive decision at the earliest.
Raipur, 29 August 2023
Chief Minister Mr. Bhupesh Baghel wrote a letter to the Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi and requested to get the national census done by setting a separate code for other backward classes, as well as to shift the headquarters of NMDC from Hyderabad to Jagdalpur to provide employment opportunities to the local unemployed. Also requested.
Chief Minister Mr. Baghel has said in the letter – On important and sensitive subject like reservation of OBCs, without any further delay, try to take necessary initiative and take positive decision at the earliest.
Mr. Baghel has written that – In April 2023, I had requested you to give the benefit of 27 percent reservation to other backward classes of Chhattisgarh state and to include this subject in the 9th Schedule of the Constitution, you will agree that It is necessary to give the benefit of reservation to a large population, who have been deprived of socio-political rights for centuries, in accordance with the spirit of equality and social justice provided by the constitution.
Mr. Baghel has written – In the bill passed unanimously by the state assembly in December 2022, the Scheduled Tribes, Scheduled Castes, Other Backward Classes and E.W.S. The bill was passed to implement 32, 13, 27 and 4 percent reservation for the people of Unfortunately, that bill is still pending approval in the Raj Bhavan.
Chief Minister Mr. Bhupesh Baghel has written – it is natural for the large population of the society to feel angry due to the denial of their constitutional rights. Despite all the efforts of the state government, it is beyond comprehension that people belonging to other backward classes are not getting the benefit of 27 percent reservation.
