Government of West Bengal
Backward Classes Welfare Department
Writers’ Buildings, Block-I, 2nd Floor, Kolkata – 700 001
No. 4845-BCW/MR-62/2001 Date: 10th December, 2001
MEMORANDUM
References are being received from the various quarters seeking clarifications in regard to issue of Other Backward Classes certificates to the applicants having origin in a State Other than West Bengal.
2. After careful consideration of all aspects it has been decided that applicants for Other Backward Classes certificates who originally belonged to a State other than West Bengal but have been residing in West Bengal for long may be granted such certificates provided they satisfy the following conditions :-
(a) They, not being a Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe, have been residing in West Bengal permanently from 15.03.1993 or from a date earlier to that;
(b) Castes to which they belong have been included in the Other Backward Classes list of this State;
(c) They are socially accepted by the identical Caste or communities of West Bengal origin; and
(d) They have matrimonial relationship with the identical Castes of West Bengal.
3. Other prescribed conditions/ restrictions regulating issue of Other Backward Classes certificates, in general, shall however continue to apply.
4. All certificates issuing authorities may act accordingly.
Sd/- A. K. Das
Joint Commissioner for Reservation & ex-officio
Joint Secretary to the Government of West Bengal