"All members of BJP in Rajya Sabha are, therefore, requested to be positively cast their vote on Tuesday, the 19th August, in favour of the...

A parliamentary panel urges revising the OBC creamy layer income ceiling, last updated in 2017, to include more eligible families due to in...

A parliamentary panel directs the Centre to enhance and review scholarships for Scheduled Castes and Other Backward Classes due to insuffic...

Key parliamentary committees in New Delhi have begun addressing issues such as reservation for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in pub...

Senior Congress leader K C Venugopal has been appointed as the head of the Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which monitors gov...

The Lok Sabha speaker named leaders for six new Parliamentary Committees, including Ganesh Singh, Dr. Faggan Singh Kulaste, Baijyant Panda,...

Key parliamentary panels, including the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), have been formed through consensus rather than elections this term...

The party, which struggled to position itself since the Mandal-Kamandal political play, now appears making an overdrive to woo the socially...

On Monday, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, home minister Narottam Mishra, state BJP president VD Sharma, state BJP gen...

The parliamentary standing committee on welfare of OBCs in a recent meeting recommended that a headcount of OBCs be conducted in the upcomi...

"Creamy layer" is the section of backward castes which is considered economically advanced and ineligible for reservations.

The committee in its report submitted with the UP government has given maximum mileage to More Backward Caste including Lodh, Kushwaha and ...

The Parliamentary Committee on Welfare of Other Backward Classes headed by Lok Sabha member Ganesh Singh is currently examining the subject.

Committee also said that the Health Ministry should explore the possibility and feasibility of providing free coaching and other incentives...

A parliamentary forum has sought a separate ministry for the welfare of OBCs and constitutional powers for the National Commission for Back...

In reply to a question, Krishan Pal Gurjar said the proposal to give constitutional status to NCBC is in process in the ministry.

The minister of state for minority affairs Salman Khurshid would rather concentrate on measures that would lead to 'first-generation empowe...