The Maharashtra government on Tuesday decided to set up a cabinet sub-committee to expedite welfare measures for Other Backward Classes and resolve issues related to job quota, sources said, a move coming as another round of reservation stir by the Maratha community looms.
The state already has a separate ministry for OBC welfare, which is currently headed by a BJP cabinet member.
The sources said the cabinet sub-committee for OBCs will work to expedite welfare measures for the community and thrash out issues related to quota.
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Members of the new body will be announced after all three partners in the ruling Mahayuti coalition --- the BJP, Shiv Sena and NCP -- give names of their respective ministers, they said.
In February 2024, the Eknath Shinde-led government had decided to give 10% reservation in government jobs and education to Marathas under a separate category after accepting recommendations of the State Backward Class Commission.
A cabinet sub-committee on Marathas was formed in 2022 after the Supreme Court struck down a 2018 law granting quota to the community as unconstitutional as the legislation breached the 50% ceiling set by the apex court in 1992.
Quota activist Manoj Jarange has been demanding that Marathas be given reservation in jobs and education under the OBC category (27%). The 43-year-old activist has announced a fresh round of indefinite hunger strike for Maratha reservation in Mumbai from Aug. 29.
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