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Thursday, November 13, 2025
TopicSub-categorisation

Topic: sub-categorisation

Rohini Commission’s JK Bajaj bats for ‘systematic’ caste census. ‘May end up with messy data otherwise’

Comprehensive lists of caste names should be drawn up to avoid what happened with SECC 2011, a question on benefits of reservation could be included in questionnaire, Bajaj suggests.

Congress opposes ‘creamy layer’ for SCs, STs, expresses ‘surprise’ over Supreme Court verdict

Congress held many rounds of talks for crafting response to Supreme Court ruling, but with BJP opposing creamy layer for SC/STs, it realised it could not afford further dilly-dallying.

Amid rumblings in BJP over SC’s creamy layer observation, MPs say PM has assured it’s ‘not binding’

Over 100 BJP SC/ST MPs presented Modi a memorandum on the issue, say PM has 'assured them' it's just an observation. NDA allies & opposition parties, too, have expressed objections.

BJP ranks split over SC/ST sub-categorisation, Hindi belt leaders say excluding creamy layer ‘absurd’

Though top court order likely to help BJP in South, scenario complex in Hindi belt where quota rejig can upset Dalit subgroups. Order disrupts Hindutva project, says party leader.

‘Substantive equality of opportunity’ — why Supreme Court empowered states to sub-classify SCs & STs

In 2005 verdict in EV Chinnaiah case, apex court had outlawed Andhra Pradesh govt notification to sub-categorise SC/STs in state, saying it contradicted to Article 341 of Constitution.

How Modi-Shah’s BJP is becoming a victim of their OBC reservation plot

Over two years after Modi govt’s ‘final’ deadline to Justice Rohini Commission for OBC sub-categorisation, India’s backward classes await a report. Why is the BJP hesitant?

Modi’s new vote: Sub-categorisation set to bring OBCs into BJP fold

By spreading benefits of OBC reservations more evenly among all castes, the BJP can win over 40 crore of India’s most deprived people.

On Camera

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

Doctor-led terror module behind Delhi blast was in phase 2 of ops, planned serial bombings in December

While main elements behind terror module have been nabbed, more arrests will take place, including some professors & academicians who were part of the ring, it is learnt.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.