H K Patil
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Belagavi: The Legislative Assembly on Thursday passed a resolution urging the Union government to include the state’s 56% reservation decision in the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution, to provide legal protection from the 50% cap on reservations imposed by the Supreme Court in the Indra Sawhney case in 1992.
Placing the resolution, Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister H K Patil noted that the resolution was being passed to protect the interests of persons belonging to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes.
The resolution comes at a time when courts have quashed decisions by various state governments to enhance the reservation quota beyond the 50% ceiling.
In 2024, the Patna High Court had ruled the Bihar government’s decision to enhance reservations to 65% as unconstitutional. In October 2025, the Telangana High Court stayed the state government’s decision increasing the reservation for local body polls beyond 50%.
The Assembly also passed a resolution urging the Union government to transfer at least 25% of the 73 national-level institutes currently in Bengaluru to the North Karnataka region.