Limit of reservation for SC: Parliamentary panel suggests a

A Parliamentary committee today appeared suggesting a re-look on the issue of percentage of reservation for Scheduled Castes.
It also expressed concern over lack of updated data on castes proposed for inclusion/exclusion in the Scheduled Castes list, saying necessary information is still being obtained from old literature of pre-independence era.
The Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment, chaired by BJP MP Ramesh Bais, said,"The Committee observes that on one hand new communities are being consistently added in the SC list, which results in giving benefits to more and more people under the reserved category while on the other, percentage of reservation remains the same."

"Considering the fact that the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) deals with the issue relating to the reservation policy, the Committee urges the ministry to take up the matter with DoPT for appropriate action," it said.
The panel, at the same time, backed the provisions of the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Orders (Amendment) Bill, 2014, which seeks to include some new communities from Haryana, Karnataka, Odisha and the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
"The Committee approves the amendments in the bill in its entirety," it said.
Rooting for a more reliable data of such communities, it said,"The Committee are unhappy to note that the data on the estimated population of the communities proposed to be included in the SC list through this bill is not available with the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment

"...The ministry has merely relied on the views of the state governments that these communities are socially, educationally and economically backward.