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 ...

The caste certificate of a person, belonging to Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe, seeking public employment requires to be validated as per the law if the caste certificates of parents of such person ...

Mumbai: Bombay High Court recently asked the state govt to form a committee to consider allowing applicants to provide details of their mother's social status on the ‘Aaple Sarkar' portal for ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led central government has given its nod to conduct a caste census in the upcoming national enumeration. With this decision, citizens will be counted not just by ...

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has directed the Maharashtra government to form a committee to examine whether individuals can provide details of their mother’s caste or social status on the ‘Aaple ...

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 ...

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: 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 ...