Power to remove difficulties

(1) If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this Act, the Government may by order published in the Official Gazette make provisions not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act as appear to it be necessary or expedient for removing the difficulty:

Provided that no such order shall be made after the expiry of a period of two years from the date of commencement of this Act.

(2) Every order made under this section shall as soon as may, after it is made, be laid before each House of State Legislature. backwardness of the backward communities, castes and tribes and considering the level of poverty of each community their way of life, standard of living, habits and customs, place of each community in social hierarchy and the State Government, has taken into consideration of such report and the guidelines given by the Supreme Court of India in the Judgement of Vasanth Kumar and another Vs. State of Karnataka and the Judgement delivered on 16.11.1992, relating to reservation for socially and educationally Backward Classes in particular on the implementation of Mandal Commission Report in Indira Sawhaney Vs. Union of India (AIR 1993 SC 477); And whereas in the opinion of the State Government, Backward Classes of citizens and the persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled tribes who constitute the majority of the total population of the State are not adequately represented in the services under the State in proportion to their population in the State of Karnataka; And whereas the State government after careful consideration of the above factors have taken a policy decision that the existing level of seventy three per cent reservation in admission to educational institutions in the State and in the services under the State for the persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled tribes and Other Backward Classes of citizens be raised to eighty per cent for ensuring the advancement of the aforesaid Classes in the State; BE it enacted by the Karnataka State Legislature in the Forty-fifth year of the Republic of India as follows:-