A sum of ₹42.51 crore was spent for the welfare of Scheduled Caste category in Alappuzha district during the 2024-25 fiscal. Officials said that ₹25.02 crore had been spent on various welfare ...

Siddaramaiah (ANI file photo) The report also places the Scheduled Caste population at over 1.09 crore and the Scheduled Tribe population at over 42 lakh.

Telangana government had earlier appointed a commission headed by retired High Court judge Justice Shameem Akther on SC categorisation, which made recommendations that the 59 Scheduled Caste (SC ...

and Scheduled Tribes (ST) categories as reported in the Socio-Economic and Educational Survey (caste census) conducted by the Karnataka State Backward Classes Commission, headed by H Kantharaj.

the Supreme Court has affirmed that the post of Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), advertised under the “Scheduled Caste Sports” category, was validly reserved for women pursuant to the ...

The commission recommended splitting 59 Scheduled Caste communities in the state into three groups within the 15% reservation allotted for government jobs and education. Following this ...

Telangana has officially become the first Indian state to categorise Scheduled Castes (SCs) differently. The decision was announced on the birth anniversary of Dr BR Ambedkar. The change aims to ...

Outraged by the controversy, Anurag Kashyap questioned how the Brahmins still exist if Prime Minister Narendra Modi has successfully eradicated the caste system in India. In an Instagram post ...

TIRUNELVELI: An 18-year-old boy from a Scheduled Caste community in Nanguneri, who survived a caste-based attack by his classmates in 2023, was attacked again by an unidentified gang on Wednesday ...

But in 2024, the Telangana Police filed a closure report in the case stating that Rohith did not belong to the Scheduled Caste and committed suicide in fear of his real caste getting discovered.

“We are from the Satnami community [a prominent scheduled caste group in Chhattisgarh] and they are Chandras, one of the other backward classes (OBC) groups. Hence, they were opposed to their ...

The state government had previously appointed a commission led by retired High Court judge Justice Shameem Akther on SC categorisation, which made recommendations that the 59 Scheduled Caste (SC ...