SHILLONG: The All Meghalaya Other Backward Classes Organisation (AMOBCO) submitted a petition to the Commissioner and Secretary, Department of Social Welfare, T Dkhar on the deprivation of OBCs in the state of their rights.
The chairman of the organisation, R. G. Pradhan said the process of issuing of OBC certificate had been discontinued since 2004.
However, he stated that the state government in its letter dated October 28, 2013 addressed to the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, had conveyed that no specific community had been recognised as belonging to OBC in the state of Meghalaya and there is no official state list of OBCs.
In this connection, he questioned the basis of issuance of OBC certificate till 2004, when there was no specific community that is recognised as belonging to OBC classes in the state.
Pradhan asserted that constitutional rights and privileges of reservation had been denied to the eligible citizens and was discriminatory.
He urged Dkhar to look into the matter and to take remedial steps to restore constitutional rights and privileges of the OBCs.