NSEBC Panch Full Details NEW DELHI

NSEBC Panch Full Details NEW DELHI

The Union Cabinet has approved the setting up of a National Commission for Socially and Educationally Backward  Classes (NSEBC) as a constitutional body. There havebeen demands in the Parliament and by the General Public for grant of Constitutional status to the National Commission for Backward Classes to enable it to hear the grievances of OBCs in thesame manner that a National Commission for ScheduledCastes (constituted under Article 338) and National Commission for ScheduledTribes (constituted under Article 338A) hear the grievances of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The Bill to provide constitutional status to the body will be introduced in Parliament. The Commission will comprise of a Chairperson, a Vice-Chairperson and three other members. The Cabinet has also repealed the National Commission for Backward Classes Act, 1993 and dissolved the body that was c .. The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday approved setting up of National Commission  for Socially and EducationallyBackward Classes (NSEBC) as a Constitutional body. The Union Cabinet has approved setting up of a NSEBC by making amendment to the Constitution,  mainly by insertion of Article 338B. 

The Bill will be introduced in the Parliament.  The Cabinet has approved the following: (i) Creation of a National Commission for Socially  and Educationally BackwardClasses under new Article 338 B; (ii)Insertion of provision after Article 341 and 342 viz. 342 A to provide for Parliament's approval for every inclusion into and exclusion from the Central List of Other Backward Classes; (iii) Insertion of a new Clause (26C) under Article 366 to define Socially and Educationally Backward Classes; (iv)Repeal of National Commission for Backward Classes Act, 1993 (No. 27 of 1993) and Rules framed there under; (v)Dissolution of the Commission constituted under the Act of 1993; (vi)Composition of the new Commission i.e. National Commission forSocially and Educationally Backward Classes, with a Chairperson, Vice Chairperson and three other Members. The National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) was set up in pursuance to the Supreme Court judgement in the Indra Sawhney case as per the NCBC Act, 1993. Section 9 ("Function of the Commission") of the NCBC Act, 1993, states as under: (ii) The Commission shall examine requests for inclusion of a any class of citizens as a backward class in the lists  and hear complaints of over-inclusion or under-inclusion of any backward class in such lists and tender such advice to the Central Government as it deems appropriate. (iii) The advice of the Commission shall ordinarily be binding upon the Central Government.