Divide OBCs into subgroups, says govt panel

A government panel wants the Centre to initiate legal measures to split the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) into subgroups based on their socio-economic status, in what is the first show of official intent to categorize the monolith group. The panel has suggested that the mass of thousands of backward castes presently part of an umbrella OBC list be divided into distinct categories of "backward" and "most backward".

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