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India News: The Maharashtra government has formed a high power committee (HPC) to oversee the implementation of schemes for the Dhangar community, in order to pre
The petition added that proper procedures were not followed while passing the 1994-government resolution. The PIL was admitted on August 7, 2019.
The decision comes a day after Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said a government-appointed committee scrutinised 1.72 crore old documents (including those of Nizam-era) and among them, 11,530 records were found where Kunbi caste was mentioned.
A government resolution (GR) asked the officials to translate old documents having references to Kunbis and written in Urdu and 'Modi' script (which was used to write Marathi language in earlier times). These documents are to be digitised, attested and then put in public domain.
A committee of three retired justices -- Dilip Bhosle, Maroti Gaikwad and Sandeep Shinde -- will be formed, which will assist the state government on extending reservation as well as to fight the ongoing curative petition in the Supreme Court.