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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Uttar Pradesh plans scheduled caste status for 17 OBC sub-castes by Pankaj Shah

Uttar Pradesh plans scheduled caste status for 17 OBC sub-castes by Pankaj Shah

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published Published on Apr 9, 2012   modified Modified on Apr 9, 2012

The Samajwadi Party government is gearing up to include 17 OBC sub-castes into the scheduled castes. 

A high-level committee headed by Uttar Pradesh chief secretary Jawed Usmani has sought details from the department of social welfare before issuing a notification in this regard. The circular from the UP chief secretary on March 28, too, speaks of the government's priorities, including the inclusion of 17 OBC sub-castes within the SC category. 

If the 17 OBC sub-castes move to the SC category, the SP benefits from votes of both the OBCs, whose space within the reservation system increases, and the sub castes, who get more opportunities as SCs. While the OBCs have 27% reservation, the SC/ST category has 22.5%. The move was one of SP's poll promises during the assembly elections. 

According to official sources, chief minister Akhilesh Yadav may even take up this issue at a meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Delhi on April 16. The 17 sub-castes which the government wants included in the SC category are Kahar, Kashyap, Kewat, Nishad, Bind, Bhar, Prajapati, Rajbhar, Batham, Gaur, Tura, Majhi, Mallah, Kumhar, Dheemar and Machua. 

The move also marks the SP's strategy to consolidate the votes that drifted away following an overwhelming dominance of Yadavs over a period of time. The sub-castes proposed to be included in the SC category essentially constitute the most backward castes (MBCs) within the OBCs. 

The SP government in 2005 had amended the UP Public Services Act, 1994, to include as many as 17 castes from the OBCs in the SC category. But, since the power to declare any caste as 'scheduled' rests with the Centre, the then UP government's decision, taken without the Centre's consent, proved in fructuous. The Allahabad high court later quashed the decision, leaving these castes in the lurch. 

During his election campaign, Akhilesh Yadav had held a series of meeting with MBC leaders assuring them of their due share in politics if SP was voted to power.

The Times of India, 9 April, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Uttar-Pradesh-plans-scheduled-caste-status-for-17-OBC-sub-castes/articleshow/12589618.cms


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