West Bengal makes minor tweaks to OBC list struck down by HC | Kolkata News

KOLKATA: Bengal’s new OBC list, tabled by state govt within the meeting on Tuesday, has minor adjustments in contrast to the earlier list. While the sooner list, struck down by the Calcutta High Court, had 113 OBC subgroups with 77 Muslim and 36 others, the brand new OBC list has 140 subgroups, 80 of them Muslim.Supreme Court is listening to a problem by Bengal govt in opposition to the HC scrapping of the sooner list, impacting round 5 lakh OBC certificates. The state had advised the SC that it could full its recent OBC survey by the tip of June. The survey tabled on Tuesday additionally indicated that state is listening to representations from 50 extra OBC teams.The proportion of Muslims within the new OBC list is 57.1. While there are 73.4% Muslims within the OBC ‘A’ class (in a complete of 49 subgroups, 36 are Muslims and 13 non-Muslims), OBC ‘B’ has 48.3% Muslims (there are 91 subgroups, of which 44 are Muslims, and 47 are non-Muslims).The HC ruling had decreased 17% OBC reservations within the state to 7%. The report tabled on Tuesday permits Bengal govt to restore OBC reservation to 17%, allocating 7% for OBC ‘A’ and 10% for OBC ‘B’. This is ready to improve barely with 50 extra teams being evaluated.The authorized impasse on the OBC difficulty had an overriding impression in Bengal, from pausing admissions to colleges, schools and universities to state govt recruitments.CM Mamata Banerjee, talking within the meeting on Tuesday, had mentioned that the issuance of OBC certificates for faculty admissions and govt jobs would resume instantly. “Many recruitment boards kept the process on hold due to the legal confusion. That will now be resolved,” Banerjee had mentioned, including, “Backwardness, not religion, was the sole criterion in the fresh OBC survey.”On Tuesday, Bengal chief of opposition Suvendu Adhikari had alleged that the OBC list was flawed and stemmed from “appeasement politics”. He mentioned that there have been solely 11 Muslim teams out of 66 OBC teams earlier than 2010. Adhikari went on to declare that OBC in Bengal meant ‘one-sided beneficiary’.Questioning Adhikari’s details, Trinamool Congress had mentioned in a press release on Tuesday: “Suvendu Adhikari, we all know that ‘divide and rule’ is the official policy of BJP, and your only agenda for the 2026 elections is to pit Hindus against Muslims. But CM Mamata Banerjee has made it crystal clear that backwardness, not religion, is the sole criterion for OBC status. The new list was prepared with that principle in mind. So stop misleading the people with your lies.”