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Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment Dr Virendra Kumar said Rs 15,555.53 crore has been released under the components of PM-YASASVI from 2014-15 to 2025-26, supporting more than 1,069 lakh students and beneficiaries.
Post-Matric Scholarship is the largest component at Rs 12,118.75 crore for 425.66 lakh students; Pre-Matric accounted for Rs 2,163.15 crore for 642.58 lakh beneficiaries.
Rs 346.79 crore was released for hostel construction creating 28,865 seats for OBC boys and girls, including 3,700 seats in 2025-26.
Top Class Education in Schools, running since 2022-23, has released Rs 116.69 crore for 45,228 students, with coverage rising from 1,275 beneficiaries in 2022-23 to 27,007 in 2025-26.
Top Class Education in Colleges, running since 2023-24, has released Rs 810.15 crore for 37,937 students; 2025-26 figures for the two scholarship components are provisional.
Promote educational continuity, reduce dropout and widen access to quality education for OBC, EBC and DNT students, through scholarships, hostels and support for meritorious students in leading institutions.
Key: Umbrella scheme formed by merging the ministry's separate OBC/EBC/DNT scholarship and hostel sub-schemes; the Pre-Matric component covers Classes 9 and 10 and the Post-Matric component covers post-secondary study.
Launched on 16 February 2022 by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment with an indicative outlay of Rs 200 crore over 2021-22 to 2025-26.
Key: Four verticals - free competitive-exam coaching, health insurance for families, livelihood support at the cluster level, and housing assistance. Implemented by the Development and Welfare Board for De-notified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Communities.
Implement welfare programmes for DNT communities that are not covered by existing SC, ST or OBC lists.
Key: Set up in 2019 under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, under the aegis of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, with B.R. Idate as its first chairman.
Communities branded 'criminal by birth' under the Criminal Tribes Act of 1871 and denotified after independence, along with itinerant groups that follow no fixed settlement. Many are not on any SC, ST or OBC list, which is why a separate board and scheme exist for them.
Simple Analogy: A colonial label removed on paper, but the disadvantage stayed.
Examines requests for inclusion in and complaints of over- or under-inclusion in the Central List of OBCs, and safeguards the interests of socially and educationally backward classes. It began as a statutory body under the NCBC Act, 1993, enacted after the Supreme Court's Indra Sawhney judgment of 1992.
Reported in 2008 on the absence of reliable enumeration of DNT communities and on the stigma they continue to carry; estimated nearly 1,500 nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes and 198 denotified tribes.
The later commission on DNT communities, which reported in 2017 and led to the creation of the DWBDNC in 2019.
Empowers the President to appoint a Commission to investigate the conditions of socially and educationally backward classes and recommend steps to remove their difficulties. The Kalelkar Commission, the First Backward Classes Commission, was appointed under it by presidential order on 29 January 1953 and reported on 30 March 1955; the Mandal Commission, the Second, was set up on 1 January 1979 and reported on 31 December 1980.
Inserted by the Constitution (102nd Amendment) Act, 2018, which received assent on 11 August 2018, it constitutes the National Commission for Backward Classes as a constitutional body, on a par with the commissions for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
Also inserted by the 102nd Amendment: Article 342A deals with the Central List of socially and educationally backward classes and Article 366(26C) defines them.
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A category used by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment for scholarship eligibility, distinct from the OBC list and from the EWS reservation introduced by the 103rd Amendment.
Pre-Matric supports Classes 9 and 10 to cut dropout before the board stage; Post-Matric supports post-secondary and higher education costs.
The list of socially and educationally backward classes for central government purposes, dealt with under Article 342A and examined by the NCBC.