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He said, “Presently, there are 34 seats reserved for SC with a population of 28.9% as per the 2001 Census. Punjab has the largest percentage of SC population in the country,” said Ghubaya.Ghubaya has stressed the need to increase assembly seats reserved for SC in Punjab from 34 to 36. “Despite that all three are general seats whereas other 31 segments which have less SC population are reserved for the community which need to be corrected by readjustment,” said Ghubaya. He also met vice-chairperson of the National Commission for ST on Thursday and is scheduled to meet the chairperson of the commission on Saturday. He has also raised matter before the National Commission for the SC.“Through a notification in 2014, the Election Commission of India (ECI) had reserved two assembly constituencies in Uttar Pradesh for ST and the process to reserve five assembly seats in Sikkim is in the final stages..