The National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) has urged the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment to gather information on the inhabitants of Other Backward Classes (OBCs) within the nation “as part of Census of India 2021 exercise”, it’s learnt.
NCBC secretary Anand Kumar on Thursday despatched the advice to the Social Justice Ministry Secretary.
Kumar didn’t reply to questions despatched by The Indian Express. Sources within the NCBC confirmed that the communiqué was despatched to the ministry.
While a petition filed by one Mallesh Yadav within the matter is pending earlier than the Supreme Court, the NCBC wrote that it “desired that the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment may defend the writ petition” within the apex courtroom.
The NCBC had thought-about the matter in full assembly of the Commission just lately and, sources stated, the choice was taken unanimously.
The NCBC was granted constitutional standing by the final Narendra Modi-led regime, and the federal government has constituted a fee beneath chairmanship of former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court Justice G Rohini to sub-categorise OBCs to offer advantages of reservation to weaker sections amongst them. The Rohini Commission, too, is dealing with difficulties on account of unavailability of knowledge on varied communities labeled beneath OBCs.
The Rohini Commission obtained a recent time period on January 22, 2020 – it was tasked with learning “various entries in the Central List of OBCs and recommend correction of any repetitions, ambiguities, inconsistencies and errors of spelling or transcription”.
The panel had written to Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Thawar Chand Gehlot on December 12, 2018, requesting for acceptable Budget provision for a proposed all-India survey for an estimate of caste-wise inhabitants of OBCs. Subsequently, on March 7, 2019, Justice Rohini wrote to Gehlot, “We have now decided not to undertake such survey at this stage.”
On the politically delicate concern, the Odisha authorities just lately determined to start its first state survey of the social and academic circumstances of individuals from backward lessons. A proposal by the Odisha State Commission for Backward Classes to undertake the survey was accepted on February 26 this 12 months. It is scheduled to be carried out between May 1 and May 20.
