Report recommends enlargement of Keralas record of Socially and Educationally Backward Classes

A report of the Kerala authorities’s Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms has recommended that the record of Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC) within the State be revised to incorporate 28 Other Backward Classes (OBC) that don’t discover a place in it.

The suggestion is a part of the Work Study Report 2025 ready by the division for strengthening the Backward Classes Development Department (BCDD).

The report famous that at present there are 88 communities in Kerala’s OBC record, which types the premise for the reservation advantages to State authorities service. That stated, reservation advantages associated to State-run programs in greater schooling are finalised on the premise of the SEBC record based mostly on the Kumara Pillai Commission Report of 1965.

According to the report, the crux of the issue is that there are 28 communities that discover a place within the State OBC record, however not within the SEBC one. Since these 28 communities are included solely within the OBC record, they can not declare reservation advantages with respect to schooling.

This may very well be perceived as a denial of social justice since these teams, backward each financially and educationally, are denied reservations with respect to schooling when college students from economically backward households within the normal class can declare such assist, the report noticed.

BC promoters

With the intention of bettering the final functioning and repair supply of the BCDD, the report has beneficial the appointment of Backward Classes promoter (BC promoter) in all 78 taluks. BC promoters, who could also be paid a honorarium of ₹25,000 monthly, will assist the division to increase its attain to the grassroots and strengthen field-level operations, it famous.

Further, the report additionally beneficial the creation of a Planning and Monitoring Cell headed by a Joint Director-ranked officer within the BCDD. The cell would monitor the progress on schemes and tasks and study the feasibility of recent undertakings.

The Director, BCDD, had submitted a set of suggestions in September 2021, looking for the transformation of the 4 zonal places of work into district places of work and opening new places of work in districts that lacked them. The Personnel and Administrative Reforms Department, inspecting the suggestions, had proposed an in depth examine for strengthening the 4 zonal places of work and directorate.