New Delhi, Tuesday 31 August 2010: A delegation of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe MPs, including some union ministers, today met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to demand that an order providing reservation in government jobs be replaced by an act to bring greater benefits to them.

“Members of the SC/ST Parliamentary Forum met the Prime Minister today to demand that an Act is necessary to provide reservations to SC/ST which is done through a government order,” LJP Chief Ram Vilas Paswan said.

The MPs also demanded that the Bill in this regard, which was passed in Rajya Sabha in the last session of Parliament, be amended as it excluded some government establishments in providing reservation to the two categories.

“We demanded that there should be no exception. Section 4 of the Bill, passed by Rajya Sabha, should be deleted.