<p class="title">The commission set up to look into sub-categorisation of Other Backward Classes (OBCs) has got yet another extension of its term till November this year.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Thursday approved the extension.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“Cabinet has approved the extension of the term of the commission to examine the issue of Sub-categorisation of Other Backward Classes in the Central List till November 2018,” the government said in a statement.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“Based on the emanating information from the data as processed and analysed, the Commission has expressed that a round of discussion with the States and their Backward Classes Commissions was required before finalising the sub-categorised lists and the report,” the government said, justifying the extension.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The report of the Commission is much awaited as the stratification of the OBC quota could lead to quota within quota, which may impact national politics.</p>.<p class="bodytext">This could affect educationally and socially advanced communities among backward classes like Yadavas, who have benefited from the policy of positive discrimination recommended by the Mandal Commission.</p>
<p class="title">The commission set up to look into sub-categorisation of Other Backward Classes (OBCs) has got yet another extension of its term till November this year.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Thursday approved the extension.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“Cabinet has approved the extension of the term of the commission to examine the issue of Sub-categorisation of Other Backward Classes in the Central List till November 2018,” the government said in a statement.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“Based on the emanating information from the data as processed and analysed, the Commission has expressed that a round of discussion with the States and their Backward Classes Commissions was required before finalising the sub-categorised lists and the report,” the government said, justifying the extension.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The report of the Commission is much awaited as the stratification of the OBC quota could lead to quota within quota, which may impact national politics.</p>.<p class="bodytext">This could affect educationally and socially advanced communities among backward classes like Yadavas, who have benefited from the policy of positive discrimination recommended by the Mandal Commission.</p>