May 01, 2025 10:03 pm (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Don't demoralise our forces: Supreme Court rejects plea seeking judicial probe into Pahalgam terror attack | PM Modi inaugurates WAVES, says right time to 'Create In India, Create For The World' | Kolkata fire: Hotel owner and manager arrested after blaze kills 14 | Pahalgam terror attack: US appeals to India and Pakistan to de-escalate border tensions | Pahalgam fallout: Instagram accounts of Mahira Khan, Hania Aamir, other Pakistani actors blocked in India | India shuts airspace for all Pakistani flights days after Pahalgam massacre | Bangladesh Supreme Court stays HC order granting bail to Chinmoy Krishna Das in sedition case | After Pahalgam terror attack, India warns Pakistan over 'unprovoked firing' along LoC: Report | PM Modi to skip Russia's Victory Day parade on May 9 in backdrop of Pahalgam attack | PM Modi holds top cabinet meetings amid India's wait for Pahalgam terror attack revenge
Lok Sabha | OBC bill

Lok Sabha passes bill to allow states to form their own OBC lists

| @indiablooms | Aug 11, 2021, at 04:01 am

New Delhi/IBNS: The Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed a bill to allow states and Union Territories to draw up their own list of Other Backward Communities (OBCs).

These lists can be different from that of the Central government's one.

The bill was cleared with 385 votes for and none against it.

Following the passage of the bill, Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Pralhad Joshi said: "I thank all Members of Lok Sabha for supporting The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Amendment) Bill, 2021. Once passed in Rajya Sabha, this Bill will go a long way in protecting the interests of OBCs.
#MonsoonSession."

The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Amendment) Bill, 2021, was brought in by the Union Cabinet to undo a categorical ruling by the Supreme Court in May that only the Central government can prepare an OBC list.

The court's direction came during a hearing on the Maratha quota issue. It had then cited a law passed in August 2018 to give constitutional status to the National Commission for Backward Classes.

"States have no power to add any caste to socially economically backward caste list due to the amendment made by Parliament," the Supreme Court had observed back then.

Moving the bill Tuesday, Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Virendra Kumar described it as a historic legislation as 671 castes in the country would benefit from it.

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.
Close menu