Narendran Commission

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Narendran Commission was an inquiry commission appointed by the Kerala Government in February 2000 to study and report on the adequacy or otherwise of representation for Backward Classes in the State public services.[1] The report is available in the government web site.[2] It submitted the report in November 2001 with statistical data on the representation of the various communities in the four categories of public services - State government departments, the judiciary, public sector enterprises, and universities and other autonomous institutions under the government.[3]

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[edit] Main Findings of Commission

The following are the main finding as mentioned in the report:

  • Backward Class communities, like Ezhava hold posts substantially higher in number than their individual reservation quota.
  • Report provides statistics of the backlog in the representation of the major Backward Class communities in the public services. Deficiency in the number of posts actually held (in reservation and open merit competition together) compared to the entitlement in reservation quota" for the various communities are as follows
    • Muslims (reservation quota: 12 per cent) 7,383 posts
    • Latin Catholics (4 per cent) 4,370 posts
    • Nadars (2 per cent) 2,614 posts
    • Scheduled Castes converted to Christianity (1 per cent) 2,290 posts
    • Dheevara (1 per cent) 256 posts
    • Other Backward Communities (3 per cent) 460 posts; and Vishwakarmas (3 per cent) 147 posts
  • The Committee suggest to implement special recruitment campaign to remove the backlog and to get equal right for all sectors of the society.

Commission has observed that As long as the present condition prevails, some of these sixty eight communities are likely to continue with poor representation while others will have adequate (some of them, more than adequate) representation," the Commission had noted[3]

The Kerala government as well as the people discuss about this commission report very seriously. UDF government has partially implemented the findings of the commission and the LDF, who is ruling kerala has promised to the people that it will look into the further steps to have a complete package to take carte of the backlogs and reservation.

[edit] Response to Findings

Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana (SNDP), IUML, CPI(M), INC, INL of Kerala has also welcomed this intiative and had asked the government to implement the report. But NSS and others representing forward caste interests challenged this demand.[4] There are different movements like Samvarana Samrakshana Action Council formed by Dalits, Cristians and Muslims to push the government to implement the reservation for minorities.[5]

[edit] Creamy Layer Suggestions

Indian Supreme Court has pointed out its disagreement on the Narendran Commission's suggestion to increase the creamy layer Quota to 300,000 Indian Rupees instead of the 100,000 Indian Rupees as suggested by Joseph Commission and has pointed out the margin is too high.[6]Kerala Government has taken further steps now to appoint a permanent commission to fix this layering in order to calculate the maximum income for the eligibility of reservation.[7]

[edit] References

  1. ^ What does Narendran Commission say? [1]
  2. ^ JUSTICE K.K. NARENDRAN COMMISSION and Report[2]
  3. ^ a b Stir over a report [3]
  4. ^ Government has shelved Narendran Commission report, says Pinarayi [4]
  5. ^ Demand to implement Narendran Commission report [5]
  6. ^ Govt. examining verdict on Narendran report [6]
  7. ^ No creamy layer in admissions? [7]
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