Hyderabad, December 3: The Andhra Pradesh Assembly unanimously passed the Kapu Reservation Bill to provide five percent quota to Kapu community in education and employment.
He said, the bill will be sent to Centre for its consent. He also said that the Centre will be requested to include this reservation in the 9th Schedule, to insulate it from judicial review.
The state already has 29 percent reservation for Backward Castes. Apart from this, 15 per cent and 6 per cent reservations exist for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. With the quota for Kapus, the total reservation in the state goes up to 55 percent, beyond the 50 percent cap set by the Supreme Court for reservations.
The Chief Minister assured that the existing Backward Castes will not be affected by this decision. The Kapu community, with 27 percent population in the state, has been demanding reservations for decades.