Patna, November 22: With assembly elections due next year, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has strongly advocated classification for backward and extremely backward classes (EBCs) in central services.
Stating that former Bihar chief minister Karpoori Thakur had done the classification while he was in office during 1977-80, Kumar asked government employees belonging to EBC to raise the demand.
The NDA government in Bihar is giving political reservation for this section and 20 per cent reservation has been made for EBCs in panchayat and local bodies, Kumar said at a seminar ‘Development and Challenges faced by the EBCs in Changing Economic Circumstances’ held last night.
–PTI