New Delhi, May 14: The Supreme Court has issued notices on petitions filed by the Andhra Pradesh Commission for Backward Classes, the AP Mudiraj Mahasabha, Palle Ganesh, Y Ravinder, Uppari Narasimhulu and others challenging the judgment of the AP High Court which had quashed GOs No 15 and 16 of the Backward Classes Welfare Department by which the Mudiraj, Mutrasi and Tenugollu were moved from Group D to Group A of the BC community.
The petitioners questioned the reasoning and logic behind the High Court quashing the GO on reclassification of the Mudiraj, Mutrasi and Tenugollu and its averment that the move was based neither on the Anantaraman Commission Report of 1970 or the Backward Commission report of 2009, but on the population of the Backward Class community.
The petitioners questioned whether the High Court had not “misdirected itself ’’ when the issue of inclusion of the Mudiraj, Mutrasi and Tenugollu community in Group A was raised. In the year 1970, the State Government had accepted in toto the Socially and Educationally Backward Classes List drawn up by the Anantaraman Commission.
While agreeing to the classification of the Backward Classes into four groups, the State Government directed that on the basis of the population of these four groups, 25 per cent of the seats in professional courses be reserved among the four groups: Group A — 7 per cent, Group B — 10 per cent, Group C — 1 per cent and Group D – 7 per cent.
The petitioners submitted that later several representations were made for inclusion of the above communities in Group A as their inclusion in Group D was an error. They further pointed out that the AP Commission for Backward Classes was reconstituted in the year 2008.
–Agencies