Navi Mumbai: Residents of the Konkan region that includes Thane, Raigad and Navi Mumbai will no more have to wait in queues or make endless visits to the state social welfare office in Konkan Bhavan ...

Chennai: The issue of legal validity of verifying the community certificate or caste status of a govt employee after retirement from service is to be considered by a larger bench of Madras high court.

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Friday refused to grant an 18-year-old student the Scheduled Category (SC) status of his mother as his estranged father belonged to the Other Backward Class (OBC) ...

Children of single mothers from other backward classes should be entitled to OBC certificates irrespective of the parents’ marital status, the Centre has told the Supreme Court, adding that it was for ...

The Indian Railways is concerned over the inordinate delay in verifying the genuineness of Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe/Other Backwards Classes certificates of employees. In a note sent to General ...

Mumbai: A petitioner who has been contesting the Maharashtra government’s policy of granting Kunbi caste certificates to Marathas has once again sought to move the Bombay High Court, this time ...

In a rare and sensitive intervention, the Supreme Court on Monday allowed a minor girl to be issued a Scheduled Caste (SC) certificate based on her mother’s caste, prioritising the child’s education ...

The law to regulate the issuance of caste certificates for the Scheduled Caste and Other Backward Class communities in Manipur, introduced by the erstwhile Manipur government in 2024 amidst the ethnic ...

The Supreme Court has allowed an SC certificate for a minor based on her mother's caste, even though her father is non-SC. This decision, made to prevent academic hardship, raises questions about ...