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Govt committed to empower SC/STs : PM

  •   Tue, Dec 10 2019 09:14:30 PM

New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS): Soon after Parliament unanimously passed the the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth Amendment) Bill, 2019 which extends reservations for the SC/ST category for ten more years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to Twitter to express his happiness.

"I am overjoyed on the unanimous passage of The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth Amendment) Bill, 2019 that extends SC/ST reservations for ten more years," the PM tweeted.

Modi said he and his government are "unwaveringly committed" towards the empowerment of the marginalised sections of society.

The Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed the Bill with voice vote to extend the reservation of Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) for the next 10 years up to January 25, 2030, with the government announcing that the reservation will "never" be removed.

In his concluding remarks, Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth Amendment) Bill, 2019 amends provisions related to reservation of seats for SCs and STs and that reservation is the right of these under-privileged community.

"Reservation is undoubtedly good and it should be going on further. The BJP is determined to provide reservation for SC/ST and it will be. This reservation will never be removed," Prasad said.

The Bill was passed with division of votes with 352/0.
  

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  • Mohan Prabhu, Mangalore (Kankanady)/Ottawa, Canada

    Tue, Dec 10 2019

    successive governments for the next onehundred or more years will have to repeat this exercise because Dalits are more powerful than the poor people who are marginalized in society and others who cannot claim dalitoy, in every aspect, especially in public service. As long as Dalits remain dalits there is no relief for others. Perhaps there are two regimes in the country; one for dalits and the other for the rest.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Tue, Dec 10 2019

    First protect women from getting Raped ...

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  • Mangalorean, Mangalore

    Tue, Dec 10 2019

    In our own district a Dalit police was humiliated and thrown out of a temple sometime during early December.

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