Union Minister Ramdas Athawale has favoured increasing the 50 per cent cap in job reservation to 75 per cent to include the economically weak among the upper castes even as he emphasised that the quota given to Dalits should not be disturbed.
"The percentage of reservation should be enhanced from the existing 50 percent to 75 per cent," Athawale, who is the Union minister of state for social justice and empowerment told reporters at an ashram in Goverdhan area here Monday evening.
Athawale said he was in favour of extending reservation on economic basis to