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Haryana Minister assures help to farmers witnessing crop damage due to uns
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Chandigarh (Haryana) [India], Mar 1 (ANI): Haryana Cooperation, Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes Welfare Minister, Dr Banwari Lal on Sunday assured the farmers of all possible help in the wake of crop damage due to unseasonal rain and hailstorm in Rewari district.
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Uddhav Thackeray-led delegation to meet Amit Shah to demand caste-based ce
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Feb 29 (ANI): Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Friday said a delegation led by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray would meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah to demand caste-based census to calculate the exact population of Other Backward Classes (OBC) to ensure
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BJP-led government giving slow death to reservation provisions: Mayawati
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 22 (ANI): BSP chief Mayawati on Saturday accused the BJP-led government of giving "slow death" to constitutional provisions for reservation of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and said the only way is for these sections to get "ma
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Bill identifying socially backward classes passed in Odisha Assembly
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Feb 18 (ANI): The Odisha Assembly on Monday passed the Odisha State Backward Classes (Amendment) Bill. The move will enable the state's Backward Class Commission to conduct a survey for identifying socially and economically backward classes on the basis of so
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Odisha Govt constitutes Odisha State Commission for Backward Classes
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Feb 13 (ANI): Odisha Government has constituted Odisha State Commission for Backward Classes under the Chairmanship of Justice Raghunath Biswal, Former Judge Odisha High Court.
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Maharashtra to change name of state departments for OBCs, SEBCs, VJNTs
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Feb 12 (ANI): Maharashtra government has decided to change the name of the state department for OBCs, SEBCs (socially and educationally backward classes), VJNTs (Vimukt Jati and nomadic tribes) and special backward classes.
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Will request state government to form OBC commission in state: NCBC chairp
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Feb 11 (ANI): National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) chairperson Bhagwan Lal Sahani on Tuesday said that he will raise the issue of reservation for other backward classes with state secretary and would request the state government to resolve the matter
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BJP govts sytematically eroding quota system for backwards: Priyanka Gandh
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 10 (ANI): Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday accused the BJP and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) of systematically trying to end the quota system for the backward classes provided in the Constitution.
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BJD MP demands implementation of Odisha Cabinet Resolution in Census 2021
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 5 (ANI): BJD MP Sasmit Patra has demanded the implementation of Odisha State Cabinet Resolution for simultaneous enumeration of Socially, Economically Backward Classes and Other backward Classes or Castes in Census 2021.
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Rs 85,000 cr for welfare of SCs, OBCs in FY 20-21, says Sitharaman
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Finance Minister Nirmala Sithraman on Saturday proposed a budget of Rs 85,000 crore in 2020-21 for the welfare of Scheduled Caste (SC) and other backward classes and Rs 53,700 crore for Scheduled Tribe (ST).
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Cabinet extends tenure of commission examining sub-categorisation of OBCs
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 22 (ANI): The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the extension of the term of the commission to examine the issue of sub-categorisation of Other Backward Classes (OBCs) by six months up to August 31 this year.
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NRC dreadful for Dalits, Adivasis: Bhim Army chief
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Meerut (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jan 20 (ANI): Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad said that the National Register of Citizens (NRC) is dreadful for Dalits, Adivasis, and backward classes.
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