The Supreme Court can still invalidate the newest national injunction and allow the order to go into effect anywhere it is ...

Rejecting the charge that her government was planning to give reservation based on religion, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday told the state Assembly that backwardness was the ...

First Backward Classes Commission • The Other Backward Classes (OBCs) have historically suffered social and educational backwardness. ‘Backward Classes’ constitute such classes or citizens, other than ...

The West Bengal cabinet has approved the addition of 76 new castes to the Other Backward Class list. This decision supplements the existing 64 ethnic groups. Farakka in Murshidabad district will ...

These 76 new castes would be added to the existing 64 ethnic groups on the Other Backward Class (OBC) list in the state, official said.

The Extremely Backward Classes (EBCs) have been an important part of Bihar politics, with many political parties and leaders wooing them as they constitute 36% of the state’s population. With state ...

Thus, a caste census is indispensable not only to understand the Other Backward Class (OBC) category but also how resources are differentially allocated within SC/ST groups and the disproportion that ...

Leaked contents of the report suggest increasing reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs). The caste census report, or Socio-Economic and Educational Survey, was submitted to the cabinet on ...

The Karnataka caste census report is recommending increasing the reservation for Other Backward Classes from 32% to 51%.

The caste census report, submitted to the Karnataka cabinet, has recommended enhancing the reservation for Backward Communities from the existing 32 per cent to 51 per cent.

It also prioritized engagement with those backward Muslims facing unemployment and ghettoization rather than with Muslim upper-class intellectuals.