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Recommendations for Equitable Reservation Benefits: OBC Sub-Categorisation Report Delivered to President

Posted On: 31 JUL 2023 9:58PM by PIB Delhi

A Commission for Other Backward Classes was appointed to examine sub-categorisation of Other Backward Classes with Justice G Rohini, Retd. Chief Justice, Delhi High Court as the Chairperson, vide notification dated 2nd October, 2017.

The Commission had been entrusted the task to study the various entries in the Central List of OBCs and recommend correction of any repetitions, ambiguities, inconsistencies and errors of spellings or transcription; to examine the extent of inequitable distribution of benefits of reservation among the OBCs; and to work out the mechanism, criteria, norms and parameters, in a scientific approach, for sub-categorization within such OBCs.

The Commission has submitted its report to the Hon’ble President of India today on 31st July, 2023.

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