Madhya Pradesh: Shivraj administration brings notification to offer 35% reservation to ladies in govt jobs recruitment

Madhya Pradesh authorities has issued a notification for offering 35 p.c reservation in recruitment to ladies, barring the Forest division within the state.

The state authorities has made modification to the Madhya Pradesh Civils Services (Special Provision for Appointment of Women) Rules, 1997 to provide 35% reservation to ladies.

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According to the copy of notification, “Notwithstanding anything contained in any service rules, there shall be reserved 35 percent of all posts in the service under the state (except Forest Department) in favour of women at the stage of direct recruitment and the said reservation shall be horizontal and compartment-wise.”

Earlier, CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan additionally introduced to offer 35 p.c reservation to ladies in police and different authorities jobs and 50 p.c reservation for girls in educating posts. Priority can be given to ladies in native our bodies, together with aldermen and different positions. Education charges of ladies will probably be borne by the federal government whereas making certain higher schooling to them.

Recently, the ladies’s reservation Bill handed by the Parliament, turned legislation after it acquired assent from President Droupadi Murmu.

The ‘Nari Shakti Vandan Adhniyam’, which supplies 33 per cent reservation for girls within the Lok Sabha in addition to the state legislative assemblies, was unanimously handed by the Rajya Sabha, turning into the primary invoice to be handed within the new Parliament constructing.

On September 20, the Bill was handed following division with 454 members voting in favour of the laws and two towards it on the movement in search of its passage.

The amendments moved by the Opposition members had been damaging and separate clauses of the draft laws had been additionally voted on.
On September 21, Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam was ‘unanimously’ handed in Rajya Sabha which marks the PM’s birthday based on the Hindu calendar.

Notably, Madhya Pradesh is scheduled to go for the meeting polls later this yr. Through the polls, the state will elect legislators from 230 Assembly constituencies.

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