LUCKNOW: The Yogi Adityanath government is working on a plan to increase the representations of OBC subgroups which have largely remained underrepresented in the government sector despite being given reservation benefits over the years.
Confirming the development, UP minister for backward caste welfare Narendra Kashyap said that a drive to evaluate the representation of OBC subgroups in the government has been launched. “It will help us take corrective measures for increasing the number of the underrepresented OBC subgroups in the government departments,” he told TOI. While a full-fledged caste census is yet to be conducted by the government, primarily the Centre, the state government exercise may prove to be a sharp pointer to socio-economically weak subgroups which, notably, determine electoral fortunes of political parties.
