Hyderabad, April 15 -- The Telangana government on Monday went ahead with a sub-categorisation of Scheduled Castes in quotas in educational institutions and for government jobs, issuing a gazette notification and becoming among the first batch of states in the country to implement sub-categorisation after the Supreme Court allowed the same in August 2024.
Haryana was the first state to go ahead with sub-categorisation in Scheduled Caste reservation in 2024 soon after the apex court order. To be sure, some states allowed sub-categorisation in reservation for different categories even before that.
A Telangana cabinet sub-committee headed by state irrigation minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy and comprising other ministers C Damodar Rajanarsimha, ...