The Chhattisgarh government has decided to raise the percentage of reservation for the scheduled tribes and scheduled castes in government jobs. In a decision taken in the Cabinet meeting held in Raipur on Wednesday, the STs will now get 32 per cent whereas the SCs will get 12 per cent reservation. The OBCs will continue to be given 14 per cent reservation as usual. The percentage of reservation for the STs and SCs in the government jobs have been decided in accordance with their population percentage in the state as per the 2011 census. Official sources said that the government will soon bring a Bill in the Assembly to this effect. In another Cabinet decision today, the state government will soon bring out the Chhatisgarh Public Service Guarantee Rules, 2011. The state government has decided to bring about 100 public services under 30 different departments under the ambit of these rules. These rules will empower the public with the right to service in a given time-frame failing which the concerned government departments will attract penal provisions. The departments include the police, transport, revenue, agriculture and forest. An Act to this effect has already been passed by the state Assembly during its monsoon session this year.