India, Dec. 23 -- Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has urged Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Virendra Kumar to include 108 Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC) communities from Odisha in the Central Other Backward Classes (OBC) list.

In a letter addressed to Virendra Kumar, Pradhan highlighted the gap between the State SEBC list of Odisha and the Central OBC list. He pointed out that several communities already recognised by the Odisha government are still missing from the Central list, creating confusion and hardship for people belonging to these groups.

Pradhan said the absence of these communities from the Central OBC list leads to administrative and interpretational problems, especially whe...