T’gana to implement SC sub-classification
8 months ago

T’gana to implement SC sub-classification

Hindustan Times  

The Telangana government will promulgate ordinance, if necessary, to implement the reservations for the sub-castes of scheduled castes, in accordance with the Supreme Court verdict on SC sub-classification, chief minister A Revanth Reddy announced on Thursday. If necessary, we shall promulgate an ordinance in this direction,” Revanth Reddy said, adding that the state government would take a decision soon on the categorisation of SCs into four sub-groups – A, B, C and D. On Thursday, a seven-judge bench, led by Chief Justice of India Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud upheld the classification of SCs into sub-groups for implementation of reservations in education and employment. Our efforts paid off ultimately and the Supreme Court gave the judgement in favour of categorisation,” the chief minister said as he thanked the apex court in resolving the long pending issue. Telugu Desam Party general secretary and Andhra Pradesh state IT minister Nara Lokesh also welcomed the Supreme Court judgement on SC categorisation.

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Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly approves sub-classification of Scheduled Castes; we have kept our word, asserts Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu
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1 week, 6 days ago

Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly approves sub-classification of Scheduled Castes; we have kept our word, asserts Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu

The Hindu  

The Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly on Thursday approved the report of the One-Man Commission on Sub-Classification of Scheduled Castes headed by Rajiv Ranjan Mishra, a retired IAS officer. In his remarks, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu reaffirmed the government’s commitment to SC sub-categorisation, stating that it was a long-pending demand that had now been fulfilled. Chandrababu NaiduAndhra Pradesh Chief Minister …

Revanth Reddy says Telangana's SC classification fulfills Congress promise to Dalits
2 weeks, 1 day ago

Revanth Reddy says Telangana's SC classification fulfills Congress promise to Dalits

India Today  

Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy on Tuesday called the classification of Scheduled Caste communities a "historic step" towards justice and upliftment. Speaking during the Budget session in the Assembly, he said “many activists have sacrificed their lives for SC classification, and the 'people's government' is committed to the upliftment of the SC communities.” He highlighted the Congress party’s long-standing commitment …

Scheduled Castes to be divided into three groups to implement 15% reservation
2 weeks, 2 days ago

Scheduled Castes to be divided into three groups to implement 15% reservation

The Hindu  

Reservations for the Scheduled Castes will forthwith be made on the basis of three major groups within the community identified by the Telangana Government. The Bill follows the Supreme Court’s direction permitting sub-classification within Scheduled Castes reserved categories,followingpersistent demands and representations from various sections among them. The Bill said that in order to eliminate inequalities in status, facilities and opportunities …

'Only Parliament Can Change SC List' : Supreme Court Dismisses PIL To Add Are-Katika Community In Scheduled Castes Category
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1 month, 1 week ago

'Only Parliament Can Change SC List' : Supreme Court Dismisses PIL To Add Are-Katika Community In Scheduled Castes Category

Live Law  

Saying that only the Parliament has the power to do so, the Supreme Court today refused to entertain a public interest litigation seeking inclusion of the Are-Katika community in the Scheduled Castes category all across India. When the petition was sought to be withdrawn with liberty to approach the High Court, Justice Gavai shot back that the High Court also …

Manda Krishna seeks justice to all SC sub castes in classification
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Manda Krishna seeks justice to all SC sub castes in classification

The Hindu  

Madiga Reservation Porata Samiti founder Manda Krishna has urged the one man commission chairman Shameem Akhtar to take steps to ensure that all sub castes in the scheduled castes are given justice in the SC classification. The MRPS had already requested Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy to rectify the lapses in the one man commission’s report and the government had …

Take objections on SC classification to notice of Cabinet panel or judicial commission: Telangana CM
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Take objections on SC classification to notice of Cabinet panel or judicial commission: Telangana CM

The Hindu  

Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has asked members of the Scheduled Castes communities, Madiga community in particular, to take their objections and problems if any on the SC categorisation to the attention of the Cabinet sub-committee constituted for the purpose as well as the judicial commission. The Chief Minister made this suggestion to a delegation of Madiga community, led …

SC sub-quota for edu, jobs in Telangana from April
1 month, 4 weeks ago

SC sub-quota for edu, jobs in Telangana from April

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad:The state government is set to implement reservations in education and employment for Scheduled Castes communities as per the new SC sub-categorisation from April, according to official sources. This move follows a landmark Supreme Court judgment in August 2024, which permitted states to sub-categorise SCs within the 15 per cent reservation quota for education and employment. In response, Chief Minister …

Revanth reaffirms commitment to SC sub-classification; govt. rejects creamy layer proposal
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Revanth reaffirms commitment to SC sub-classification; govt. rejects creamy layer proposal

The Hindu  

Chief Minister Revanth Reddy reaffirmed his government’s commitment to Scheduled Caste sub-classification, declaring that Telangana will be the first State in the country to implement it. He announced that the government had rejected the one-member judicial commission’s recommendation to introduce a creamy layer within reservations, which suggested that MLAs, MPs, ZP chairpersons, mayors, and other public representatives, as well as …

Telangana govt to issue fresh job notifications from January
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Telangana govt to issue fresh job notifications from January

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The state government is preparing to issue new job notifications beginning from next month after a delay caused by the Scheduled Castes sub-categorisation issue following the Supreme Court’s judgement on August 1 that allowed states to sub-classify SCs. Following the DSC recruitment, the state government will proceed with issuing other job notifications as per the annual job calendar, and …

District as unit for SC reservation categorization in AP, says CM
4 months, 3 weeks ago

District as unit for SC reservation categorization in AP, says CM

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu has stressed the need to provide equal opportunities to all sub-castes among the Dalits through proper implementation of the SC reservation categorization. At a meeting held at the secretariat on Thursday the Chief Minister discussed SC reservation categorisation with Dalit MLAs of the three-party alliance. This was in the context of an election guarantee …

Telangana appoints one-man commission to study SC sub-classification
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Telangana appoints one-man commission to study SC sub-classification

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD: The state government has appointed a one-man commission, to be headed by retired judge of Telangana High Court Justice Shameem Akhtar, to conduct a detailed study on sub-classification of Scheduled Castes for providing reservations. The terms of reference for the commission include undertaking of a rational sub-classification and grouping together of the homogeneous sub-castes within the Scheduled Castes in …

Telangana: More jobs only after categorisation of SCs
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Telangana: More jobs only after categorisation of SCs

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD: The state government has decided to issue further job notifications only after receiving a report of a one-man judicial commission on SC subcategorisation, to be headed by a retired judge of the high court. These decisions were made during a review meeting on the implementation of the SC subcategorisation and BC socioeconomic and caste survey chaired by Chief Minister …

Sub-Classification Within The SC & ST Categories Should Not Eventually Lead To De-Reservation
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Sub-Classification Within The SC & ST Categories Should Not Eventually Lead To De-Reservation

Live Law  

A seven judge bench of the Supreme Court in State of Punjab & Ors. Justice Gavai, in his concurring opinion, while noting this fact observes, “If the State…finds that certain categories within the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes are not adequately represented and only the people belonging to few of the categories are enjoying the entire benefit reserved for Scheduled …

Explained: Sub-classification of Scheduled Castes and the Supreme Court
7 months, 4 weeks ago

Explained: Sub-classification of Scheduled Castes and the Supreme Court

Hindustan Times  

On August 1, a seven-judge Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court with a majority of 6:1 held that sub-classification of Scheduled Castes for the purpose of reservation was constitutional. While hearing the appeal in 2014, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court noted that Chinniah needs to be revisited in light of Article 338 and the law laid in Indra …

Sub- classification within SC/STs: BSP disagrees with top court verdict
7 months, 4 weeks ago

Sub- classification within SC/STs: BSP disagrees with top court verdict

Hindustan Times  

Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Sunday termed the Supreme Court verdict allowing sub-classification within Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes an emergency situation for Dalits and tribal communities. The central government should put reservation for SCs and STS in the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution, Mayawati said. “The sub-classification of people within Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes has been …

Mayawati disagrees with SC ruling on sub-classification of SCs
7 months, 4 weeks ago

Mayawati disagrees with SC ruling on sub-classification of SCs

The Hindu  

Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati said on Sunday that her party doesn’t agree with the Supreme Court’s judgement allowing sub-classification within Scheduled Castes. “Our party doesn’t agree with the sub-classification within Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes that has been permitted,” said Ms. Mayawati, a former four-time U.P. Targeting critics who claim that SCs-STs are economically strong, the BSP leader said …

Mayawati disagrees with Supreme Court's ‘subcategories’ verdict: ‘Centre didn’t oppose it'
7 months, 4 weeks ago

Mayawati disagrees with Supreme Court's ‘subcategories’ verdict: ‘Centre didn’t oppose it'

Hindustan Times  

Bahujan Samaj Party chief and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister, Mayawati, on Sunday said that her party does not agree with the Supreme Court's verdict allowing sub-classification within the Scheduled Castes. "The sub-classification of people within Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes has been permitted, our party doesn't agree with it at all," Mayawati said while addressing a press conference in …

Mayawati opposes Supreme Court ruling on sub-classification of Scheduled Castes
7 months, 4 weeks ago

Mayawati opposes Supreme Court ruling on sub-classification of Scheduled Castes

India Today  

Bahujan Samaj Party chief and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Sunday expressed her party's opposition to the recent Supreme Court verdict allowing sub-classification within Scheduled Castes. "The sub-classification of people within SCs and Scheduled Tribes has been permitted, our party doesn't agree with it at all," Mayawati said during a press conference in Lucknow. In a landmark verdict, …

BJP SC Morcha hails Supreme Court judgement, calls it BJP’s victory
8 months ago

BJP SC Morcha hails Supreme Court judgement, calls it BJP’s victory

The Hindu  

The BJP Scheduled Caste Morcha State Vice-President Ambaraya Ashtagi has hailed the Supreme Court judgment permitting sub-classification of Scheduled Castes reservations and claimed that it was a victory for the previous BJP government. Addressing a press conference in Kalaburagi on Friday, Mr. Ashtagi said that the landmark judgement allows sub-categorisation of Scheduled Castes to grant separate quotas for more backward …

Reservation redistribution
8 months ago

Reservation redistribution

Hindustan Times  

The gains of reservation — despite its goal of driving equity — have flowed unequally. Relative social privilege and political clout have led to a few groups enjoying almost all the benefits of reservations while others languish in backwardness that is largely unchanged since Independence. To illustrate, the Jatavs in Uttar Pradesh and the Mahars in Maharashtra have long been …

States can sub-classify SCs for quotas: top court
8 months ago

States can sub-classify SCs for quotas: top court

The Hindu  

In a 6:1 majority judgment on Thursday, a seven-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Four of the seven judges on the Bench separately said the government should extend the “creamy layer principle” to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, as in the case of the Other Backward Classes category. On Thursday, Chief Justice …

Parties term Supreme Court verdict on allowing states to sub-classify SCs as 'historic'
8 months ago

Parties term Supreme Court verdict on allowing states to sub-classify SCs as 'historic'

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi, Political parties on Thursday welcomed the Supreme Court verdict allowing the states to make sub-classifications within the Scheduled Castes for granting quota to uplift socially and economically more backward castes inside the group, and termed it "historic". Parties term Supreme Court verdict on allowing states to sub-classify SCs as 'historic' A seven-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice …

CM Revanth Reddy thanks SC for landmark verdict on SC Sub-classification
8 months ago

CM Revanth Reddy thanks SC for landmark verdict on SC Sub-classification

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy here on Thursday said Telangana government would take a decision to categorize ABCD according to the Supreme Court’s verdict on SC Sub-classification. Responding to the landmark verdict given by the Supreme Court on SC Sub-classification on Thursday, Revanth Reddy announced in the Assembly that the State government would also take necessary steps to implement …

Sub-classification within SCs, STs permissible, says Supreme Court
8 months ago

Sub-classification within SCs, STs permissible, says Supreme Court

Hindustan Times  

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled by a majority that sub-classification within the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes is permissible. It declared that SCs cannot be considered homogenous classes and that it would be permissible for the Centre and states to earmark most backward classes within the reserved category of SC/STs to enable them frame appropriate policies on sub-classification and …

SC allows states to sub-classify SCs, STs for quotas within reserved categories
8 months ago

SC allows states to sub-classify SCs, STs for quotas within reserved categories

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: In a majority verdict on Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled that states have the authority to sub-classify Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes to allocate quotas within the reserved category, aiming to uplift more underprivileged groups. A seven-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud held a 6:1 majority that the further sub-classification of SCs and STs by …

States can have sub-groups among SCs/STs: Supreme Court
4 years, 7 months ago

States can have sub-groups among SCs/STs: Supreme Court

The Hindu  

A five-judge Bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday held that States can sub-classify Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the Central List to provide preferential treatment to the “weakest out of the weak”. The Chinnaiah judgment had held that allowing States to unilaterally “make a class within a class of members of the Scheduled Castes” would amount to tinkering …

Is Sub Classification Of SC-STs Permissible ? SC Constitution Bench To Pronounce Judgment Tomorrow
4 years, 7 months ago

Is Sub Classification Of SC-STs Permissible ? SC Constitution Bench To Pronounce Judgment Tomorrow

Live Law  

The Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court will deliver its judgment on the issue whether it should revisit the decision in E.V. Chinnaiah Vs. State of A. P. 1 SCC 394 in which it was held that sub classification or sub division of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe by State Legislatures is unconstitutional.The five judge bench comprising Justices Arun Mishra, …

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