Six states have furnished data based on reports of their backward commissions. Even here, there’s no uniformity. Karnataka has relied on 1974 data while states like UP have gone by the census conducted by their Panchayati Raj offices in 2001 (see chart).
States which have failed to get back with OBC data include Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Orissa, Kerala, Jharkhand, Punjab, Haryana and Assam.
It remains to be seen whether the Centre brings the data from the states before the Supreme Court or whether the court accepts that this old data is valid for policy making.
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