Public Awareness & General Administration
Panel submits report on sub-categorisation of OBCs
- The Justice G. Rohini Commission for the sub-categorisation of Other Backward Classes (OBC) caste groups submitted its report to the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, nearly six years after the Union government first assigned the task to it.
- It had received up to 14 extensions from the government in the past six years.
Note
- The government had formed the commission in 2017, to be headed by former Delhi High Court Chief Justice, Justice G. Rohini.
- The commission was asked to examine the extent to which reservation and other benefits for OBCs are concentrated among some dominant caste groups.
- The commission has suggested breaking the caste groups into broad categories, with the dominant castes [with most access to benefits] getting the smallest share of the 27% reservation, and the historically crowded-out caste groups getting the largest share of the reservation pie.
OBC Commission
- First Backward Class Commission, 1953 – Kaka Kalelkar.
- Second Backward Class Commission, 1979 – B.P. Mandal.
- Indra Sawhney v. Union of India case, 1992.
- National Commission for Backward Classes, 1993.
- 123rd Constitution Amendment bill, 2017.
- The bill got the President assent in August 2018 and provided the constitutional status to NCBC.
Lok Sabha passes Bill on birth registration
- The Lok Sabha passed the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill, 2023 that paves the way for digital birth certificates which will be a single document to be used for admission to educational institutions, applications for driving licences, government jobs, passports or Aadhaar, voter enrolment, and registration of marriage, and others.
- All States had consented to the provisions of the legislation that was also put up for consultation in public domain.
- The database will also update the National Population Register, ration cards, property registration.
