Date:23/11/2004 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2004/11/23/stories/2004112306461300.htm

National

Jharkhand Government gesture to BCs, OBCs

By A Correspondent

RANCHI, NOV. 22. The Jharkhand Government today decided to include different Backward Castes and Other Backward Classes in the Scheduled Castes (SC) category and recommended that a tribal community be included in the Scheduled Tribes category.

At a Cabinet meeting today, the Arjun Munda Government passed a resolution on inclusion of certain Backward and Other Backward Classes in the SC category on the basis of a report submitted by the Tribal Research Institute (TIR). The BCs and the OBCs to be included in the SC category were named as Kek, Bagchi, Punai and Jhar .

The Cabinet resolved to recommend to the Centre inclusion of Kangra tribes in the ST category.

It also approved a proposal for construction of a 85.089 km-long, six-lane ring road at a cost of Rs. 755.26 crores. The road would have nine big bridges, 31 small bridges, 233 culverts and seven flyovers.