Backward Classes
Loans on offer to COVID-19-affected Schedule Castes and Backward Class families
The money will be paid through the NBCFDC and the NSFDC
SC declines to hear plea for increasing reservation for Muslims in Kerala
A trust had sought direction to state govt to revise backward community list in accordance with Kerala State Backward Classes Act, 1993.
SC to hear pleas challenging 10% reservation to general category on July 16
A bench headed by Justice S A Bobde will decide whether interim order should be passed to stay its implementation.
Lok Sabha polls: Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party threatens to join SP-BSP alliance
Backward classes account for about 44 per cent of the electorate in UP and play a crucial role in making political prospects of any party.
Lok Sabha passes bill to give OBC panel statutory status
All 406 members present in the House voted in favour after a five-hour debate.
New twist hits BJP dalit outreach
Minister seeks quotas even for contract staff, outsourced services.
TISS protest enters 13th day
P.K. Shahjahan, Dean of Students’ Affairs of TISS, confirmed to this newspaper that all the fees of SC, ST and OBC had been waived off.
MBMC mayor lands in caste certificate row
The District Caste Committee (Mumbai) heard both the parties on Monday and will pronounce its decision before February 20, 2018.
Maratha Kranti Morcha will be held on August 9
The first rally of the community was held last year after a Maratha girl was raped and brutally killed in Kopardi.
Govt faces embarrassment in RS over backward classes bill
Constitution (123rd Amendment) Bill, 2017, for setting up of National Commission for Backward Classes, was passed after dropping Clause 3.