No Jobs Quota For Muslims in Maha Govt ,5 % Reservation To Continue

05 March, Mumbai

Muslims will not get the five per cent reservations in Maharashtra
government jobs as announced by the erstwhile Congress-NCP government
just before Assembly polls last year.

A Maharashtra government resolution said an ordinance to provide a
five per cent job quota lapsed on December 23 last year. The
government resolution said that considering this fact, the concerned
government resolution issued on July 24 last year is being scrapped.

In June last year, Maharashtra’s earlier Congress-NCP government had
approved a 16 per cent reservation for Marathas and a five per cent
for Muslims just ahead of the October 15 Assembly polls, after the
Congress was routed in the general elections.

The quota was given through two separate categories, namely the
Educationally and Socially Backward Category (ESBC) for Marathas as
well as a Special Backward Class (Muslims) segment for the Muslims.

On November 14, 2014, the Bombay High Court had stayed implementation
of the decision of the erstwhile Congress-NCP government to provide 16
per cent reservations for Marathas in jobs and education, which was
announced just ahead of the Maharashtra Assembly polls.

The court had also stayed the Maharashtra state’s decision to provide
a five per cent job reservation to Muslims in government service, but
it allowed quotas for them in educational institutions.

The Maharashtra state government had challenged the Bombay High Court
order in the Supreme Court, which refused to interfere with the
interim decision of the High Court but asked the Maharashtra state
government to go back to the Bombay High Court on the issue.