Presiding over Ambedkar Jayanti celebrations on Tuesday in Rohtak and Kurukshetra, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar announced that people belonging to Scheduled Castes would get benefit of reservation in promotions.
The Chief Minister also said that cases filed against them while they staged protest for this demand in past would also be withdrawn. In another major development, he said that women police stations would be set up at every district headquarters in the state.
Recommendations of the Raghavendra Rao Committee would form the basis for the reservation as the state government has accepted and decided to implement it, he said. The government has presented the data on SC population in the High Court and any doubt regarding promotions would come to end by July 2015, he said, adding, the previous government had not presented the population data gathered by Raghavendra Rao Committee when court had given its judgement regarding Reservation Policy 2013.
The BJP government has gathered the data of Raghavendra Rao Committee and filed a Letters Patent Appeal (LPA) in the High Court considering which the Court had cancelled its previous judgement and people belonging to scheduled castes got benefit of reservation, he said. He said that the state government had been gathering this data since 2006. After completion of data-gathering, the benefit of reservation would be given to scheduled castes from 2006 onwards, he added.
The Chief Minister also said that laws and rules were made for the people and the state government would not hesitate to make changes in them for their betterment. The state government is also considering providing compensation to tenants, labourers and other related sections affected by natural disasters, he said. "It aims to provide compensation to every single affected person. Any decision in this regard would not be taken by an officer, employee or panchayat, but by the gram sabha," Khattar announced.
