UP adds 17 Other Backward Castes in list of Scheduled Castes

Lucknow, June 29: Uttar Pradesh Government has added 17 Other Backward Castes in the list of Scheduled Castes. It has also directed all District officers to issue Caste Certificate to the families of those belonging to these 17 castes including Kashyap, Mallah, Kumhar, Rajbhar, Prajapati, and others.

 

These certificates will be issued based on the 2017 Allahabad high court order and directions. Previously, both the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party governments had attempted to include the above-mentioned castes in the SC category but failed to do so.

This is the third time that the state government will be making an attempt to include 17 OBC castes into the SC bracket.

In 2005, the then UP CM Mulayam Singh Yadav had issued a similar order to include these castes in the SC category but was opposed by the Allahabad High Court.