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The Maharashtra Cabinet was previously functioning with 20 ministers against the maximum limit of 43 ministers.

Having led a landslide victory in the May 10 polls in Karnataka and cemented his position as a champion of backward classes and minorities, the newly minted CM may have a clear task cut out in parts of southern Maharashtra where assembly polls are due next year, as well as the Lok Sabha polls. These regions have a seizable chunk of backward communities, including Dhangars who are in large numbers in Baramati, Satara, and Solapur.

The intergenerational cycle of educational deprivation among the Bakarwals reinforces the community's ‘second-class status’ and denies them a chance to break free from the confines of marginalisation.

The Bakarwals have been reduced to inexpensive sources of labour for the collection of forest produce, in construction or agricultural labour, and when it comes to shepherding contracts. This comes at a cost.

While the government appears to have shelved the Bill for the moment, it still stands accountable to its trade policies on the export of livestock and livestock products.