Hyderabad:Minister C. Damodar Rajanarsimha expressed gratitude to Leader Minister A. Revanth Reddy for enjoyable his promise on Scheduled Caste (SC) categorisation, via passing a regulation at the topic.
Talking within the Meeting on Tuesday, he mentioned that the federal government was once enacting the SC categorisation Act inside of six months of the Preferrred Courtroom’s judgment. He described the Backward Categories (BC) caste census and SC categorisation as key tasks reflecting the Leader Minister’s imaginative and prescient. Calling March 18, 2025, a ancient day, he stated the Congress executive now not best offered the Invoice but in addition held an intensive debate ahead of its passage.
Rajanarsimha recalled that during 2000, in line with a fee’s suggestions, SCs had been divided into A, B, C and D teams, with reservations applied accordingly. After Congress got here to energy below Revanth Reddy’s management, the federal government appointed a senior recommend to argue in favour of classification within the pending Preferrred Courtroom case.
“To additional the method, a one-man judicial fee was once established below retired pass judgement on Justice Shamim Akhtar, who carried out box visits throughout all districts, accumulating public critiques. The fee won over 8,000 petitions and picked up knowledge on SC populations, literacy ranges, employment, tutorial admissions, executive process appointments, monetary prerequisites and political illustration. The learn about, finished in 82 days, ended in a 199-page record submitted to the federal government on February 3, 2025,” he defined.
In response to the fee’s suggestions, 59 Scheduled Castes had been categorized into 3 teams: I, II and III. The 15 maximum socially, economically and educationally backward castes, with a inhabitants of one,71,625 (3.288 according to cent of the whole SC inhabitants), had been allotted an extra 1 according to cent reservation. The 18 castes with reasonable social, financial, and academic disadvantages, with a inhabitants of 32,74,377, got 9 according to cent reservation. The 26 castes in a slightly higher place had been allocated 5 according to cent reservation. The minister additional clarified that 4 castes from the previous Crew A, 10 from Crew B and 20 from Crew C would stay of their current classifications.
