PRAYAGRAJ: The Allahabad high court has directed the Uttar Pradesh government to take a decision within two months on the representation seeking inclusion of the Bhar/Rajbhar community of Uttar Pradesh in the list of Scheduled Tribes (STs). Till now, this community was treated as part of other backward class (OBC) in the state.
Disposing a writ petition filed by Jago Rajbhar Jago Samiti and another, a division bench comprising Justice Siddhartha Varma and Justice Dinesh Pathak observed that since the Central government has forwarded the petitioner’s representation to the UP government, therefore, no useful purpose would be served to keep the matter pending before this court.
