Union Minister Ramdas Athawale predicts Prime Minister Narendra Modi will win the 2029 and 2034 elections. He stated that his party's suppo...

JoSAA seat allocation 2026: JoSAA has released the first mock seat allocation for the 2026 counselling process, giving engineering aspirant...

The Maharashtra government has made Maratha students eligible for educational concessions and benefits previously available to the OBC cate...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee clarified in the state Assembly that backwardness is the sole criterion for determining OBC stat...

Chhattisgarh CM Vishnu Deo Sai praised Calcutta High Court's move to revoke OBC status of classes in West Bengal, criticizing 'religion-bas...

An officer from the backward classes department, however, said in case of denotified tribes, the state, at best, can give recommendations w...

According to a government official, the sample survey has been undertaken to ascertain the economic backwardness within the community to ju...

To have a Backward commission with statutory power, amendment of the law was necessary, for which the Narendra Modi government worked hard,...

Amit Shah said that the backward sections of the country had been demanding, since 1955, that the OBC Commission be given a constitutional ...

Naidu said, "Our government, under the leadership of Narendra Modi, has decided to address the long-pending demand of the backward classes ...

The NCBC is a statutory body for the backward classes under the Social Justice Ministry. It will be replaced by the NCSEBC.

A constitutional amendment bill would be introduced in Parliament to confer constitutional status to the new commission.

The Cabinet also cleared a proposal for dissolving the National Commission for Backward classes and repealing the law under which it was es...

The Cabinet has also repealed the National Commission for Backward Classes Act, 1993 and dissolved the body that was constituted under it.

Proposal to give constitutional status to the National Commission for Backward Classes was under process in the Social Justice and Empowerm...

With Jats recently put on the central list of backward classes, the day is not far when Marathas and Jat-Sikhs too will be in queue for quo...

With an eye on elections, the UPA government is considering granting backward status to Jats to help them get reservation in central jobs.