Lok Sabha Question No. 180 (STARRED), answered on 2017-03-14
Subject: Proposal for Inclusion in SC List
Ministry: SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT
Asked by: MIDHUN REDDY, SAKSHI SWAMI MAHARAJ

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT LOK SABHA

STARRED QUESTION NO. TO BE ANSWERED ON 14.03.2017

## PROPOSAL FOR INCLUSION IN SC LIST

## *180. SHRI PV. MIDHUN REDDY: DR. SWAMI SAKSHLJI MAHARAJ:

## Will the Minister of SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT be pleased to state:

(a) whether the Government has received proposals from various States including Andhra Pradesh,  Odisha, West   Bengal and  Telangana to incorporale some castes belonging t0 backward classes in the list of Scheduled Castes on social and educational grounds;

(b) if the details of the proposals received and the present status thereof, State and castewise;

(c) whether some of the castes proposed by the State Governments for inclusion in Scheduled Castes list have already been ineluded as Scheduled Castes in some States;

(d) if so, the details of such castes already included as Scheduled Castes, State and castewise; and

(e) the action taken by the Government in this regard? being

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT (SHRI THAA WARCHAND GEHLOT)

(a) t0 (e) A Statement is laid 0n the Table of the House.

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Statement referred in reply to Lok Sabha Starred Question No. 180 for answer on 14.03.2017 by Shri P.V. Midhun Reddy and Dr. Swamy Sakshiji Maharaj, M,Ps. regarding Proposal for Inclusion in SC List

- (a) to (e): ~wise dctails of proposals of castes   belonging to backward classes for inclusion in the lists of Scheduled Castes received in the last two years and current year are as under:

| State   | State       | Name of caste/community                                           |
|---------|-------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
|         | Bihar       | Namasudra                                                         |
| 2_      | Karnataka   | Kotekshatriya, Ramkshatriya, Servegar; Serugar; Koteyara, Kotegar |
| 3_      | Uttarakhand | Rai Sikh                                                          |

No proposal of castes belonging to Backward Classes for inclusion in the list of Scheduled Castes has been received from the States of Andhra Pradesh; Odisha; West Bengal and Telengana in the aforesaid period.

Rai Sikh community appears in the list of Scheduled Castes of the States of Haryana and Punjab and Namasudra community has been notified as a Scheduled Castes for the States of Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Odisha, Tripura and West Bengal. Kotekshatriya, Ramkshatriya, Servegar; Serugar; Koteyara, Kotegar community has not been specified as Scheduled Castes in relation to any State/ Union tcrritory. Manipur;

Government has laid down modalities for deciding claims for inclusion in, exclusion from and other modifications in the list of Scheduled Castes. Only such proposal of the State Governments/ Union territory Administration which has been agreed to both by the Registrar General of India (RGI) and the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) are processed further for amending legislation as stipulated in clause (2) of Article 341 of the Constitution of India: The   proposals of above communities have been   processed in accordance with aforesaid Modalities. Accordingly, the   proposal dated 28.08.2015 of Nanasudra community of Bihar and proposal dated 19.01.2015 of   Kotekshatriya; Ramkshatriya, Servegar, Serugar, Koteyara, Kotegar community of Karnataka have been referred back on 17.12.2015 and 20.04.2015 respectively to the concerned Statc Governments for further justification in the light of observations of RGI. Proposal dated 17.10.2016 of Rai Sikh community of Uttarakhand has becn referred to RGI on 02.11.2016 for comments.