About National Commission for Backward Classes - I
This is the first post in a series.
Most of you who have read this blog up until now will know that we do not oppose reservation. We just oppose its implementation and total non-monitoring. This allows totally undeserving wealthy sub communities to corner all the benefits acrruing to the general OBC list.
The starting point for studying the reservation for OBCs nationwide is the national commission for backward classes.
Over the next few parts, we will study how if implemented correctly - this commission is actually a fair and just setup. That is a fairly big IF , this commission is toothless against powerful vested interests. So for the most part, all the monitoring and realignment conditions are TOTALLY IGNORED. This is realitychecks ONLY problem against the incumbent reservation system to OBCs.
What is the National Commission of Backward Classes ?
This was a group created to study the inclusion and exclusion requests from different classes into the National OBC List. As you might have guessed - no one has approached it for exclusion.
Located in :
National Commission for Backward Classes
Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment
Trikoot-1, Bhikaji Cama Place, New Delhi – 110 066
To start off let us first study their handbook
http://ncbc.nic.in/ccdisabilities-annexure.pdf (PDF FILE 65 pages)
Stay tuned - we will go through each section !
on May 6, 2006 on 2:56 pm
“commission is actually a fair and just setup”
IN 1991, SC asked the creamy layer criterion to be revised every 3 yrs.
But it did so only in 2003. Keeping the income limit at 1 lakh till 2003 pushed many deserving candidates out.
on May 7, 2006 on 2:22 am
So, would you agree to have a creamy-layer concept introduced for SC/STs as well?
on May 9, 2006 on 8:32 am
Barbarindian-
My personal opinion is that even the creamy layer among SC/STs must be allowed reservation.
This is because SC/STs are very very different from the OBCs. They suffered real humiliation and social injustice for centuries. This fact is very well documented and observed even today.
With the SC/ST creamy layer, it helps create a small section of relatively elite people from that community. We may discuss how they got to be elite, but the fact of the matter is that it is very important for the SC/ST community to have some big-shots in them.
OBCs are a purely political construct with membership of OBC component casts based on relative political clout.
We believe that the biggest failure of the media and the protestors is to talk about SC/STs and OBCs in the same breath. They are not the same - they were never the same.
on August 17, 2007 on 10:06 am
Thanks for sharing this information. Really is pack with new knowledge. Keep them coming.
on September 10, 2007 on 2:56 pm
Hello,
Great Information.
Where can I get the soft copy of First Backward Classes Commission Report of India?
Please guide me.
Thank you.
AarizMohammed
on August 18, 2008 on 6:05 am
Sirs
Thanks for every efforts I think reservation is more for socially backward therefore creamy layer need not be there As a person may be an IAS but his being a backward class always make him handicap in the society therefore continue with reservation without creamy layer for some more time.