TELANGANA BECOMES FIRST STATE TO NOTIFY SCHEDULED CASTES CATEGORISATION

Gazette notification with April 14 as appointed day for implementation of SC categorisation issued; Recruitment to government jobs would forthwith be based on the categorisation

- KALIDAS NEWDELHI

The Telangana Government has notified the implementation of the Telangana Scheduled Castes (Rationalisation of Reservations) Act 2025. The State has issued a gazette notification with April 14, 2025 as the appointed day for categorisation of Scheduled Castes (SC) into three groups.

Telangana has become the first State into the country to operationalise the classification of the Scheduled Castes after the Supreme Court's land mark judgment on August 1 last year upholding the constitutionality of sub-classifying the SCs and Scheduled Tribes (STs) to grant separate quotas for the most marginalised groups within these communities.