Bengaluru, Nov. 14 -- Karnataka Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Friday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking urgent personal intervention to include the Karnataka Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Reservation of Seats in Educational Institutions and of Appointments or Posts in the Services under the State) Act, 2022 (Karnataka Act No. 1 of 2023) in the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution.

In his letter, the chief minister said Karnataka's move to enhance reservation for Scheduled Castes from 15 per cent to 17 per cent and for Scheduled Tribes from 3 per cent to 7 per cent was in furtherance of the constitutional vision of BR Ambedkar to ensure social and economic democracy.

He said for nearly seven decades since 1958, reserv...