Srinagar- The National Conference-led government has constituted a three-member Cabinet Sub-Committee (CSC) to address concerns raised by youth regarding reservation rules.
The committee will be headed by Social Welfare Minister Sakina Masood Itto.
According to an order issued by the General Administration Department (GAD), the CSC also includes Javed Rana, Minister for Public Health Engineering, and Satish Sharma, Minister for Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs.
The formal order for the CSC’s constitution was issued 18 days after the cabinet gave its approval.
The committee’s mandate is to examine grievances raised by aspirants for various posts concerning reservation rules. This will involve consultations with all relevant stakeholders. The Social Welfare Department will provide administrative support to the CSC, which will submit its findings to the council of ministers. The council holds the authority to recommend amendments to the reservation rules.
Notably, the government has not specified a deadline for the committee to complete its work.
Reservations have become a major issue in J&K following the Central government’s decision to add more communities to the reserved category and expand quotas in the UT over the past five years.
There are increasing objections to the Centre’s move to push the reservation quota to 70 percent in Jammu and Kashmir.
This follows recent announcements to introduce a separate 10 percent reservation for Paharis and other tribes and an enhancement of the OBC (Other Backward Classes) quota to 8 percent.
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