{"id":5735,"date":"2025-12-02T19:43:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=5735"},"modified":"2025-12-02T19:43:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:43:29","slug":"cm-to-chair-crucial-cabinet-meeting-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/02\/cm-to-chair-crucial-cabinet-meeting-today\/","title":{"rendered":"CM to chair crucial cabinet meeting today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Likely to act on CSC report on reservation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Srinagar, Dec 02: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah will chair a crucial meeting of the cabinet on Wednesday morning, which is likely to discuss the implementation of the cabinet sub-committee\u2019s report on reservation.<\/p>\n<p>Sources told the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the CM will chair the first meeting of the cabinet after the Durbar Move at 9:00 AM at his Wazarat Road residence in the winter capital, Jammu. The cabinet is expected to discuss the CSC report on the rationalization of reservation.<\/p>\n<p>The CSC, headed by Minister for Social Welfare Sakina Ittoo, is understood to have recommended a 10 percent reduction in the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) and Reserved Backward Area (RBA) quotas.<\/p>\n<p>The cabinet panel has recommended against tinkering with the Scheduled Tribe-I, Scheduled Tribe-II, Scheduled Castes, Other Backward Classes, and Actual Line of Control and International Border categories.<\/p>\n<p>All eyes will be on the cabinet\u2019s decision on the CSC report, given that the rationalization of reservation has become a major demand in Kashmir since 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The existing reservation policy in Jammu and Kashmir is heavily tilted towards the reserved categories, with their share at 60 percent and Open Merit (OM) at 40 percent. (KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Likely to act on CSC report on reservation Srinagar, Dec 02: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah will chair a crucial meeting of the cabinet on Wednesday morning, which is likely to discuss the implementation of the cabinet sub-committee\u2019s report on reservation. Sources told the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the CM will chair the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","category-kt-front"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5737,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5735\/revisions\/5737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}