Goa, April 15 -- In a landmark move on the birth anniversary of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, the Telangana Congress government issued a gazette notification on Monday, formally implementing Scheduled Caste (SC) sub-categorization-also known as "reservation within reservation." With this, Telangana becomes the first state in India to introduce such a system for equitable distribution of benefits among SC communities.

The notification enforces the Scheduled Castes (Rationalization of Reservation) Act, 2025, which divides SCs into three categories-Group I, Group II, and Group III-within the existing 15% reservation quota allotted to Scheduled Castes in the state.

The act received the Governor's assent on April 8 and was published in the Telangana Ga...