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Govt. Approves Inclusion of 15 New Castes in Central OBC List

Govt. Approves Inclusion of 15 New Castes in Central OBC List

by The Daily Eye Team December 2 2016, 4:16 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 28 secs

The government on Wednesday approved inclusion of 15 new castes and modification in 13 other castes in the Central list of Other Backward Classes (OBCs).
The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the proposal.
The National Commission of Backward Classes (NCBC) had recommended a total of 28 changes in eight states – Assam, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Uttarakhand.
Out of these 28, 15 were new entries, nine were synonyms or sub-castes of the castes which were already in the list, and 4 were corrections.

 

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