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OBC Classification and OBC Certificates in West Bengal
A division bench of the Calcutta High Court has cancelled every OBC-A and OBC-B certificate granted under the classification rules that West Bengal's earlier Trinamool Congress government brought in, ruling that the State no longer has such a category and that the people holding those certificates now count as general category.
Last updated 13 August 20264 min read
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Explains the Calcutta High Court ruling that ends West Bengal's OBC-A and OBC-B split and leaves everyone holding a certificate issued under the earlier rules in the general category.
- OBC
- OBC-A
- OBC-B
- Calcutta High Court
- West Bengal
- reservation
- backward classes
- caste certificates
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