Dehradun: With the Uttarakhand governor Lt General (retd) Gurmit Singh giving his nod to the Uttarakhand Reservation in Government Service for Identified statehood agitators (Andolankari) of Uttarakhand movement and their Dependent Bill, 2023, about 11400 statehood agitators and their dependents are now all set to get 10 per cent horizontal reservation in government jobs.
CM Dhami expressed happiness
Expressing his happiness over the new law, the Chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said that his government is working to fulfil every resolution taken in the public interest. “We have fulfilled our promise made to the State Agitators,” CM Dhami said.
10 per cent horizontal reservation to statehood agitators and their dependents
It was the year 2004 when the then chief minister ND Tewari had given horizontal reservation to the statehood agitators and their dependents. Subsequently, around 1700 people were benefited and they got government jobs. Later, the matter reached the high court which had stopped the reservation. The BJP government headed by Pushkar Singh Dhami finally got a bill seeking to provide 10 per cent horizontal reservation to statehood agitators and their dependents passed by the state assembly in September 2023. Subsequently, the bill was sent to Raj Bhavan for getting the governor’s nod.
The new law is a big relief for the statehood agitators and their dependents
The government has defined the beneficiaries under the horizontal reservation as husband or wife of statehood agitator, children (sons & daughters), widow, woman abandoned by husband and divorced daughter. The new law is a big relief for the statehood agitators and their dependents who fought a long battle to get benefits of horizontal reservation for them in government jobs.
Uttarakhand was carved out of Uttar Pradesh.
Statehood activists are the people who had participated in the movement for the creation of a separate state accommodating hill parts of Kumaon and Garhwal. Then, Uttarakhand was part of Uttar Pradesh. Finally, this agitation resulted in the formation of Uttarakhand as a separate state on November 9, 2000. The statehood activists had to sacrifice a lot to get the status of Uttarakhand as a separate state.