OBC
Other Backward Class is a classification among castes that are educationally, socially or economically backward.
Government has decided to categorise the backward classes into two categories depending on their relative backwardness and make separate provisions for reservation in services and posts
Governor is pleased hereby to increase the percentage of reservation for Other Backward Classes in West Bengal to 17% providing 10% reservation for Category-A and 7% for Category-B respectively.
State Government has conducted sample survey to ascertain the relative backwardness of the classes included in the lists of other backward classes of West Bengal.
The powers and functions of the Commission have been vested as per the provisions of the West Bengal Commission for Backward Classes Act,1993. The Act has been in the process of amendment from time to time.
Governor is pleased hereby to sub-categorise being ‘Category-A’ and ‘Category-B’, wherein Category-A classes would mean ‘More Backward’ and Category-B classes would mean ‘Backward’ within the “backward classes”.
Amendment of the list of the backward classes for the purposes of the West Bengal Commission for Backward Classes Act, 1993 as specified vide Notification No. 346-TW/EC/M-6/82(1), dated the 13th July, 1994. Serial No. 11 is modified.
An Act to establish a Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes Development and Finance Corporation in West Bengal.
Ambedkar Centre for Excellence to disseminate the benefits to the SC, ST and OBC Communities at the State level unit at Kolkata, West Bengal.
Government of West Bengal has conducted a sample survey to ascertain the relative backwardness of the classes to be included in the list of backward classes.
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.