JHARKHAND’S ASSEMBLY PASSES BILL TO INCREASE QUOTAS TO 77%
RANCHI: The Jharkhand assembly on Friday cleared two bills, one fixing land records of 1932 as the basis for domicile in the state and another to increase reservation in state government jobs across categories to 77%. According to the first bill, only those people who have their names or their ancestors’ names in the land records of 1932 or before will be considered local inhabitants of Jharkhand and only they would be entitled for grade 3 and 4 jobs in the state. The second bill, “Jharkhand reservation in vacancies of posts and services (amendment) bill, 2022”, would increase reservation in state government jobs for the socially and economically weaker sections in the state from 60% to 77%.