Hyderabad:BC Commission chairman G. Niranjan said on Monday that its final report would recommend recategorisation of castes within the Backward Classes communities based on the findings of the ongoing survey.
This, he said, would resolve the injustice being meted out to the BC communities owing to the implementation of the quota for economically weaker seactions. Communities which comprise two to four per cent of the population were 10 per cent quota, Niranjan stated.
Addressing the media at the BC commission office, Niranjan said the commission was examining the demand for inclusion of 26 castes which were removed from the BC list after the formation of the state. He said the commission also will take cognizance of the demands of the more socially backward among the BC communities, whose numbers are small.
Niranjan said the commission had received 10,124 applications during its state tour for changing a caste in one category from the other. Washermen were asking for SC quota, he said. “The proceedings will be held for two more days. The details will be submitted to the government on December 9.”
On the work of the commission so far, Niranjan said, “We ordered the government to communicate with all mandal centres and implement GO 148 and make soil needed by the Kummari community available to continue their vocation. The government has been asked to make bamboo needed by the Medara caste.”
He warned the village development committees in Nizamabad that they will have to face criminal cases if they continue to enforce social boycotts.
Niranjan also expressed dismay at the dismal state of BC hostels. He flagged overcrowding in the hostels, failure to pay rent for hired buildings and leaking roofs in the BC welfare hostels and said the commission had taken these to the notice of the government.
He said 90 per cent of the caste census was complete, except in the twin cities where progress was slower. He asked the rest of the people to participate in the survey.
