Rajasthan government on introduced a Rajasthan Backward Classes Amendment Bill- 2019 in the assembly.
It aims to give a five per cent quota in jobs and educational institutes to Gujjars and four other communities agitating for it.
This bill seeks to increase the backward classes' reservation from the present 21 per cent to 26 per cent with five per cent reservation to Gujjars, Banjaras, Gadia Lohars, Raikas and Gadaria.
The statement on the objective and reasons of the bill stated that the five castes are most backward and require five per cent separate reservation.
With this Reservations in Rajasthan crosses the 50 % cap on reservations set by the Supreme Court.
To avoid the possible legal tussle the Rajasthan Assembly passed a resolution and urged the Centre to incorporate it in the 9th schedule to ensure the reservation for these communities.
Above 50 percent
Already Tamilnadu is providing 69 percent reservation.
The Maharashtra state, which already had 52 percent reservation, had in November 2018 added another 16 percent for Marathas thus became the second highest state to the tune of 68 percent.
Moreover Haryana, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have also passed laws to provide reservation 67, 62, 55 respectively.