{"id":33148,"date":"2018-10-30T11:06:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T05:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33148"},"modified":"2018-10-30T11:06:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T05:36:53","slug":"plea-in-sc-seeks-obc-status-for-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/plea-in-sc-seeks-obc-status-for-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Plea in SC seeks OBC status for farmers:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/plea-in-sc-seeks-obc-status-for-farmers\/article21854076.ece\"><strong>Plea in SC seeks OBC status for farmers:<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Regarding granting OBC status to farmers not falling within creamy layer<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court has decided to entertain a writ petition seeking \u2018farmers\u2019 who do not fall within the creamy layer to be recognised as Other Backward Classes (OBC) as an occupational group irrespective of their caste and religion<\/p>\n<p><strong>Argument behind the PIL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The PIL argued that the inclusion would arm the ryots with constitutional rights to protect their livelihood<\/p>\n<p><strong>Respond to the petition<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The court asked the Centre, the Gujarat government and the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) to respond to the petition<\/p>\n<p><strong>Backdrop<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The petition, filed by Rajeshkumar Patel, questioned the validity of the office memorandum of the Gujarat government issued on September 13 which increased the slab of income to \u20b98 lakh to raise the number of the OBC classes<\/li>\n<li>The Centre\u2019s memorandum was followed shortly in October by the State government\u2019s order.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plea in SC seeks OBC status for farmers: Context Regarding granting OBC status to farmers not falling within creamy layer What has happened? The Supreme Court has decided to entertain a writ petition seeking \u2018farmers\u2019 who do not fall within the creamy layer to be recognised as Other Backward Classes (OBC) as an occupational group&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/plea-in-sc-seeks-obc-status-for-farmers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plea in SC seeks OBC status for farmers:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704686383},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}