Meghalaya: KSU stresses consideration in new reservation policy

Newmai News Network

Shillong: The Khasi Students Union (KSU) has emphasized that the new Meghalaya reservation policy should consider 50 percent job reservation for the Khasi-Jaintia, 40 percent for Garos, 5 percent for other Scheduled Tribes and 5 percent for unreserved category. 

This submission was made before the members of the Expert Committee on the State Reservation Policy during a 3-day public hearing, which went underway in Shillong here on Thursday.

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“During our interaction with the Expert Committee, we have suggested that if it (reservation) is going to be based on population, then we are of the opinion that the ratio of reservation between the Khasis and the Garos should be 50 per cent for Khasi-Jaintia and 40 per cent for Garos, 5 per cent for other STs and 5 per cent Unreserved. Mark my word it is not general but an unreserved category that means open for all,” KSU general secretary Donald V Thabah said after the meeting.

“Another option is that if this proposal is not possible then it (reservation) should be 90% open for Khasi, Jaintia and Garo and 5% for other tribes and 5% unreserved. These were the first two suggestions we have put forth before the panel,” he added.

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Thabah also informed that the Union has suggested that “if the new reservation policy is going to come out then it should not be retrospective, there should not be any backlog, it should be fresh, it should start afresh”.

Further, the KSU leader said that the union has also proposed a hundred per cent reservation for teachers of lower primary and primary schools.

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