Hyderabad, June 5 -- The Telangana Backward Classes Commission has decided to urge the Centre to take swift action regarding the inclusion of 40 castes in the central Other Backward Classes (OBC) list.

The chairman and the members of the commission held a meeting at the BC Commission's office at Khairtabad to review the arrangements for the public hearing, regarding the omitted 26 castes from the central OBC list, scheduled to be held on June 9, 10, and 11.

As the commission needs to submit a report to the Supreme Court on this, it has been decided to request the state government to provide information from the caste survey, the details of population, socio-economic and educational backwardness of these omitted castes.

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