<p>The State cabinet on Friday gave its nod to a long-pending demand of the Urs/Arasu community by including them under category 2A of the backward classes list.</p>.<p> The move would provide the community reservation in government education and employment. At present the community enjoys no reservation though it had the facility in 1977.<br /> <br />The Karnataka State Backward Classes Commission, in its final report submitted in 2010, had recommended that the community be included under reservation list.<br /><br />Approval for amendment to Land Revenue Act-1964 to provide claimants the rights over Jamma Bane land in Kodagu. The amendment bill has already been passed by the state legislature. <br /><br />The Cabinet had not cleared the bill before it was introduced in the legislature.<br /></p>
<p>The State cabinet on Friday gave its nod to a long-pending demand of the Urs/Arasu community by including them under category 2A of the backward classes list.</p>.<p> The move would provide the community reservation in government education and employment. At present the community enjoys no reservation though it had the facility in 1977.<br /> <br />The Karnataka State Backward Classes Commission, in its final report submitted in 2010, had recommended that the community be included under reservation list.<br /><br />Approval for amendment to Land Revenue Act-1964 to provide claimants the rights over Jamma Bane land in Kodagu. The amendment bill has already been passed by the state legislature. <br /><br />The Cabinet had not cleared the bill before it was introduced in the legislature.<br /></p>