The Cabinet Sub-Committee on SC sub-categorisation has decided to recommend to the Cabinet to appoint a one-man judicial commission to study sub-classification within the Scheduled Castes (SC) reserved categories.
This was discussed during the meeting of the Cabinet Sub-Committee chaired by Irrigation and Civil Supplies Minister Capt. N. Uttam Kumar Reddy, held at the secretariat on Tuesday.
The meeting was attended by Ministers D. Seethakka, Ponnam Prabhakar, D. Sridhar Babu and Damodar Rajanarasimha, Chief Secretary Santhi Kumari, Advocate General Sudarshan Reddy and other senior officials.
The committee, which has already held three meetings on this matter, resolved to use the 2011 Census data as the basis for sub-categorisation. It decided to recommend the constitution of a one-man judicial commission, led by a retired judge of the Supreme Court or High Court, to assess intra-backwardness among different castes within the SCs.
Uttam said this process must be legally sound and must withstand judicial scrutiny. During the meeting, officials said the Advocate General had already given the draft Terms of Reference for appointing the judicial commission. It was also reported that various recruitment boards in the state, including the TSPSC, the TGLPRB, the SCCL, the MHSRB, and the Transmission Corporation, have been directed to submit data on the sub-caste-wise employment of SCs. About 30% of the required data from the Finance Department has already been gathered.
