This is the first government-mandated exercise to quantify the skewed flow of benefits among different OBC communities and suggest steps to correct the imbalance. Sources familiar with the final deliberations of the Commission said: “OBCs have been defined already using a social criteria, we are not going to create a social hierarchy among backward classes. The First Backward Class Commission report of 1955, also known as the Kalekar report, had proposed sub-categorisation of OBCs into backward and extremely backward communities. In the Mandal Commission report of 1979, a dissent note by member L R Naik proposed sub-categorisation in intermediate and depressed backward classes. In 2015, former National Commission for Other Backward Classes under Justice (Retd) Eswaraiah asked for sub-categorisation within OBCs into Extremely Backward Classes (Group A), More Backward Classes (Group B) and Backward Classes (Group C).

Source: Indian Express May 08, 2019 23:03 UTC