Inclusion of Jats in OBC list comes under SC scanner

The apex court asked the Centre to bring all relevant records to show there was proper consideration of NCBC report to reject its recommendation against inclusion of Jats as OBC. The notification included Jat community in OBC list in Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Uttarakhand. “Therefore, it is apparent that Jat community is not such socially backward community which should be included in the Central list of Backward Classes and if it is so included it will defeat the entire purpose of reservation envisaged under the Constitution of India, as the inclusion of Jat in the list of OBC will make other backward classes, which deserve benefit of reservation, to compete with people of general class,” the petition said. They have sought direction for holding that Jat community is not a backward class and not entitled to be included in the list of OBC and annexed the findings of the NCBC which in its 26 February, 2014 report rejected the Centre’s request for recommending inclusion of Jat community in the central list of backward classes. The petitioners said despite NCBC decision to refuse to recommend inclusion of Jats in the Central List of Backward Classes for the state of Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Bharatpur and Dholpur districts of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh by its report in 1997 and for Delhi by its report in 2010, the Centre under a politically motivated action, framed absolutely illegal rules conferring power to NCBC to review its recommendation.