GADWAL: With just three days left for the Telangana assembly elections, Rahul Gandhi on Monday promised that the People’s Front -- comprising Congress, TTDP, CPI and TJS -- would enhance overall reservation for STs from 6% to 10%. He also promised categorisation of SCs into A, B, C and D groups in tune with the resolution passed in undivided Andhra Pradesh Assembly. Categorisation will immensely benefit the extremely backward Madiga community among the SCs.Addressing a large public meeting at Gadwal in Telangana, Rahul announced that after coming to power the Congress-led alliance would also complete in two phases the Palamuru-Ranga Reddy irrigation project to cater to the needs of farmers from Gadwal, Ranga Reddy, Mahbubnagar and Nalgonda districts. His promise to enhance ST quota and categorise SCs assumes significance as TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) too had made the same promise during the 2014 election campaign but had failed to deliver as the Bill for hiking reservation has not been cleared by the President yet.There are 31 reserved seats for SCs and STs in the 119-seater Telangana Assembly. The Congress had won just six of these in 2014. The two communities have a sizeable population in almost every constituency in the state, including Gadwal, and are believed to have voted in substantial numbers for TRS then. A Bill was passed in the Telangana assembly in April 2017, enhancing reservation for STs from the present 6% to 10%, along with increasing quota for Muslims from 4% to 12%. The Bill needs the President’s assent for its inclusion in the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution as was done in case of Tamil Nadu . However, the President has not yet cleared the Bill.