New Delhi, June 23 -- The Supreme Court on Monday flagged the issue that there is a lack of guidelines with respect to the issuance of Other Backward Classes (OBCs) certificates to the children of a single mother.

Considering the importance of the matter, a bench of Justices KV Vishwanathan and N Kotishwar Singh listed the matter for final hearing on July 22 this year.

The top-court was hearing a single-mothers' plea seeking issuance of OBC certificates to her children, based on her own caste-status. The plea stated that the present guidelines, in this regard, only provide for issuance of OBC certificates by considering the OBC certificate through a paternal lineage. Thus, it causes grave hardship to single mothers, the plea added.

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