India, March 8 -- The West Bengal government has initiated a survey on Saturday to assess the economic conditions of the state's other backward class (OBC) communities amid a legal battle over the Calcutta High Court's 2024 order revoking the OBC status of 77 Muslim communities, officials aware of the developments said.

The Supreme Court is currently hearing the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government's petition challenging the order passed by the division bench of justices --- Tapabrata Chakraborty and Rajasekhar Mantha --- in May last year, which triggered a huge political row on the eve of the Lok Sabha polls.

The Calcutta High Court in May 2024 scrapped OBC certificates awarded to 77 communities since 2010, an overwhelming majority of t...