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The Calcutta high court directed the West Bengal Backward Classes Commission to prepare a new list of OBCs in accordance with the 1993 Act. | Latest News India

The Calcutta High Court has declared multiple classes as Other Backward Classes (OBC) under the West Bengal Backward Classes (Other than Scheduled Castes

OBC reservation will always continue in the state, says CM

The division bench clarified that the executive orders of state government classifying 66 classes of OBC before 2010 were not interfered with, since these were not challenged...

Mamata Banerjee says she wont accept court order scrapping OBC certificates

In another crucial verdict ahead of the last two phases of the Lok Sabha polls, the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday cancelled all Other Backward Classes (OBC) certificates issued in West Bengal after 2010.

The Calcutta High Court has nullified the Other Backward Classes (OBC) status for 77 Muslim classes in West Bengal, stating that religion was the sole criterion for classification. The court deemed such reservations illegal and an affront to both the Muslim community and democratic principles.

Amid growing push from Opposition on issue, LDF govt cites need for consensus, cases in SC to delay exercise to determine socially and economically backward classes

The Madras High Court recently noted that though the Government had established the National Commission for Backward Classes, it had rendered the commission nonfunctional by not making timely...

The Supreme Court on Friday (September 22) issued notice in a contempt petition which alleged that the Union Government, the State of Kerala and the Kerala State Commission for Backward Classes(KSCBC)...