Hon’ble C.M. writes letter to Prime Minister

Drawing attention of the Hon’ble Prime Minister towards the commitment of her government for the uplift of OBCs of the state, the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Hon’ble Ms. Mayawati ji has requested the Central Government to include Jat caste/community in the Central list of other backward classes (OBCs). She has sent a letter to the Prime Minister in this connection in which she said that maximum people of Jat community earned their living mainly from agriculture and allied activities. Owing to decline in the agricultural land holding, the financial condition of the families had weakened. Moreover, they were educationally backward as well. Their children also lagged behind in the field of school education. This community did not have proper representation in the Central Services also. Keeping this in view, the state government had included Jat Community in the list of OBC on 10 March 2000.
In her letter written to the Prime Minister, the Hon’ble Chief Minister ji said that in the Central list of OBCs, under the state list of Rajasthan, the Jat caste (leaving aside Dholpur and Bharatpur districts) had been included through notification dated 27 October 1999. Since, the state of Rajasthan was an adjoining state of Uttar Pradesh and the socio-economic condition of the Jat caste of both the states was similar, so it was a solid basis to include U.P.’s Jat caste into the Central list of OBC.
The Hon’ble Chief Minister ji also said that it was her firm belief that if change had to be brought about in the condition of the Jat Community, opportunities in the field of education, employment including other sectors would have to be provided to them for their progress. Her government was committed to extend full co-operation in it, she added.

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