{"id":1030,"date":"2026-11-09T23:07:44","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T17:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenoviq.cloud\/blog\/?post_type=noviq_note&#038;p=1030"},"modified":"2026-11-09T23:07:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T17:37:44","slug":"article-371j-kalyana-karnataka","status":"publish","type":"noviq_note","link":"https:\/\/thenoviq.cloud\/blog\/notes\/article-371j-kalyana-karnataka\/","title":{"rendered":"Article 371(J) and Kalyana Karnataka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What the article says<\/h2>\n<p>Article 371(J) sits in Part XXI of the Constitution, among the temporary, transitional and special provisions. It lets the President, by order, give the Governor of Karnataka a special responsibility for the Hyderabad-Karnataka region. Under that responsibility the Governor can provide for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a separate development board for the region, with a report on its working placed before the Legislative Assembly every year;<\/li>\n<li>equitable allocation of funds for development expenditure in the region, subject to the needs of the State as a whole;<\/li>\n<li>equitable opportunities in public employment, education and vocational training for people of the region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Clause 2 goes further. An order can reserve a proportion of seats in educational and vocational training institutions in the region for students who belong to the region by birth or domicile. It can also identify posts under the State Government, and in bodies it controls in the region, and reserve a share of them for local people.<\/p>\n<h2>Why the region needed it<\/h2>\n<p>The districts of this region were part of the Nizam&#8217;s Hyderabad State before the 1956 reorganisation of states. They joined Karnataka with lower literacy, fewer institutions and weaker infrastructure than the rest of the State. A special provision was seen as a way to address that gap through dedicated funds and a local share in jobs and education.<\/p>\n<h2>Districts covered<\/h2>\n<p>The region originally had six districts: Bidar, Kalaburagi, Yadgir, Raichur, Koppal and Ballari. Vijayanagara district was carved out of Ballari in 2021, so the area today spans seven districts.<\/p>\n<h2>Timeline<\/h2>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Year<\/th>\n<th>Event<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>2012<\/td>\n<td>Parliament passes the Constitution (Ninety-eighth Amendment) Bill<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1 January 2013<\/td>\n<td>President&#8217;s assent to the Act<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2013<\/td>\n<td>Presidential orders set up the development board and local reservation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>September 2019<\/td>\n<td>Region renamed Kalyana Karnataka; the board becomes the Kalyana Karnataka Region Development Board (KKRDB)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2021<\/td>\n<td>Vijayanagara district formed out of Ballari<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>How it shows up in recruitment<\/h2>\n<p>State recruitment notifications from KPSC, KEA and departments list a separate category for candidates with a 371(J) eligibility certificate issued by the competent authority. Posts in the local cadre of the region are filled mainly from such candidates, and region candidates also get a share of state-level posts. Always check the exact percentages and certificate rules in the notification you are applying to, as they are set by state orders and can be revised.<\/p>\n<h2>Related special provisions<\/h2>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Article<\/th>\n<th>State<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>371<\/td>\n<td>Maharashtra and Gujarat<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>371A<\/td>\n<td>Nagaland<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>371D<\/td>\n<td>Andhra Pradesh and Telangana<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>371F<\/td>\n<td>Sikkim<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>371J<\/td>\n<td>Karnataka<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Article 371(J) says, which districts it covers, how the development board and local reservation work, and how it is tested in KPSC and UPSC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16,13],"noviq_topic":[36],"class_list":["post-1030","noviq_note","type-noviq_note","status-publish","hentry","category-polity-governance","tag-kpsc","tag-upsc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenoviq.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noviq_note\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenoviq.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noviq_note"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenoviq.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/noviq_note"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenoviq.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenoviq.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noviq_note\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1344,"href":"https:\/\/thenoviq.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noviq_note\/1030\/revisions\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenoviq.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenoviq.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenoviq.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"noviq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenoviq.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noviq_topic?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}