Other Backward Classes (list): West Bengal
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State government
Updated to 2012
More Backward (Category A)
1 Abdal (Muslim)
2 Atta (Muslim)
3 Baidya Muslim
4 Basni / Bosni (Muslim)
5 Bayen (Muslim)
6 Beldar Muslim
7 Bepari /Byapari Muslim
8 Bhangi (Muslim)
9 Bhatia Muslim
10 Bhuiya/Bhunya (Muslim)
11 Borah /Bara /Bora (Muslim)
12 Chowduli (Muslim)
13 Dhanuk
14 Dhatri/Dai/Dhaity (Muslim)
15 Dhukre (Muslim)
16 Dhunia
17 Fakir, Sain
18 Gayen (Muslim)
19 Gharami (Muslim)
20 Ghorkhan
21 Ghosi (Muslim)
22 Goldar/Golder (Muslim)
23 Gorey (Muslim)
24 Hajjam (Muslim)
25 Halsana (Muslim)
26 Hati (Muslim)
27 Hawaikar (Muslim)
28 Hawari
29 Jatuya (Muslim)
30 Jogi
31 Jolah (Ansari-Momin)
32 Kalwar
33 Kan (Muslim)
34 Kasai
35 Kayal (Muslim)
36 Khajonkriya /Khajankriya (Muslim)
37 Khandait
38 Khansama
39 Khondekar/Khonkar (Muslim)
40 Khotta Muslim
41 Kosta /Kostha
42 Lakhera /Laahera
43 Mahaldar (Muslim)
44 Mai Muslim
45 Majhi / Patni Muslim
46 Mallick
47 Midde
48 Muchi / Chamar Muslim
49 Muslim Barujibi / Barui
50 Muslim Bhatiyara
51 Muslim Biswas
52 Muslim Chutor Mistri
53 Muslim Dafadar
54 Muslim Haidar
55 Muslim Jamadar
56 Muslim Kalander
57 Muslim Laskar
58 Muslim Mali, Faraji (Muslim)
59 Muslim Mandal
60 Muslim Molla
61 Muslim Nehariya
62 Muslim Penchi
63 Muslim Piyada
64 Muslim Rajmistri
65 Muslim Sanpui/Sapui
66 Muslim Sardar
67 Naiya (Muslim)
68 Nashya-Sekh
69 Nikari (Muslim)
70 Pahar (Muslim)
71 Patidar
72 Raptan (Muslim)
73 Rayeen (Kunjra)
74 Roniwar
75 Sekh/Seikh
76 Shershabadia
77 Shikari/ Sikari (Muslim)
78 Siuli (Muslim)
79 Sukli
80 Tutia (Muslim)
Backward (Category B)
1 Adaldar (Muslim)
2 Akunji/Akan/Akhan (Muslim)
3 Bag (Muslim)
4 Bagani (Muslim)
5 Baishya Kapali
6 Bansi Barman
7 Baradi (Muslim)
8 Barujibi, Barui
9 Betkar (Bentkar)
10 Bhandari (Muslim)
11 Bhar
12 Bharbhuja
13 Bhujel
14 Bungchheng
15 Chaprashi (Muslim)
16 Chasatti (Chasa)
17 Chitrakar
18 Christians converted from Scheduled Castes
19 Churihar
20 Dalai (Muslim)
21 Daptari (Muslim)
22 Devanga
23 Dewan
24 Dewan (Muslim)
25 Dhabak (Muslim)
26 Dhali (Muslim)
27 Dhimal
28 Gangot
29 Gavara
30 Gazi (Muslim), Par (Muslim)
31 Goala, Gope (Pallav Gope, Ballav Gope, Yadav Gope, Gope, Ahir and Yadav)
32 Gurung
33 Hele /Halia /Chasi-Kaibartta
34 Hoseni Goyala (Muslim)
35 Kahar
36 Kalal/Iraqi
37 Kansari
38 Kapali
39 Karani
40 Karmakar
41 Katha (Muslim)
42 Kazi/Kaji/Quazi/Quaji (Muslim)
43 Keori /Koiri
44 Khalashi (Muslim)
45 Khan (Muslim)
46 Khen
47 Kichni (Muslim)
48 Kotal (Muslim)
49 Kumbhakar, Kumar
50 Kurmi
51 Majhi
52 Malakar
53 Malita/Malitha/Malitya (Muslim)
54 Mangar
55 Mistri (Muslim)
56 Moira (Halwai), Modak (Halwai)
57 Mouli (Muslim)
58 Mudi/ Mehedi (Muslim)
59 Mukti/ Mufti (Muslim)
60 Muslim Darji /Ostagar /Idrishi
61 Nagar
62 Napit
63 Nembang
64 Newar
65 Pahadia Muslim
66 Paik (Muslim)
67 Pailan (Muslim)
68 Purkait (Muslim)
69 Rai (including Chamling)
70 Raju
71 Sadhukhan (Muslim)
72 Sahana (Muslim)
73 Sampang
74 Sana (Muslim)
75 Sarak
76 Sarala/Sarwala (Muslim)
77 Sareng (Muslim)
78 Sarkar (Muslim)
79 Satchasi
80 Sepai (Muslim)
81 Shah (Shah/ Sahaji)
82 Shankakar
83 Sunuwar
84 Sutradhar
85 Swarnakar
86 Tal-Pakha Benia
87 Tamboli/ Tamali
88 Tanti, Tantubaya
89 Tarafdar (Muslim)
90 Teli, Kolu
91 Thami
92 Turha
93 Yogi, Nath
Central list
Updated to 2011
1. Baishya Kapali.
2. Barujibi
3. Goala, Gope(Pallav Gope, Ballav Gope, Yadav Gope, Gope, Ahir and Yadav).
4. Kapali
5. Karmakar
6. Kumbhakar
7. Kurmi
8. Moira (Halwai), Modak (Halwai)
9. Napit
10. Satchasi
11. Sutradhar
12. Swarnakar
13. Teli
14. Yogi,Nath
15.Nagar (this does not include immigrant Maithili Brahmins and immigrant Nagars from other States who are Brahmins and Baniyas)
16. Karani
17. Raju
18. Keori/Koiri
19. Sarak
20. Kosta/Kostha
21. Chitrakar
22. Malakar
23. Jolah(Ansari Momin)
24. Kansari
25. Tanti, Tantubaya
26. Dhanuk
27. Shankhakar
28. Jogi
29. Fakir, Sain.
30. Nembang
31. Sampang
32. Turha
33. Bungchheng
34. Bhujel
35. Kahar
36. Betkar (Bentkar)
37. Sukli (excluding Solanki Rajputs who claim themselves to be Sukli)
38. Churihar
39. Thami
40. Dhunia
41. Dhimal
42. Bhar
43. Lakhera/Laahera
44. Rangwa
45. Kasai-Quraishi
46. Kalwar
47. Hawari, Dhobi (other than those included in the list of SCs)
48. Tamboli/Tamali
49. Tamang
50. Khen (Non Bania category)
51. Chamling
52. Scheduled Castes converts to Christianity and their progeny
53. Rayeen (Kunjra)
54. Hele/Halia/Chasi-Kaibartta, Das Kaibartta
55. Nashya-Sekh
56. Shershabadia
57. Rai (including Chamling)
58. Bharbhuja
59. Dewan
60. Patidar
61. Banshi Barman
62. Pahadia Muslim
History
How some groups entered the OBC list/ 2009, 2010
Dhananjay Mahapatra, August 22, 2024: The Times of India
New Delhi : West Bengal govt in its submission before SC stood by its decision to include 77 castes in the OBC list, stating that the additions were made following an elaborate three-tier process, which included two surveys and a hearing by the Commission for Backward Classes, but let out that it completed this exercise in less than 24 hours in the case of certain Muslim communities.
The Khotta Muslim community made an application on Nov 13, 2009, and on the same day WB Commission for Backward Classes recommended its inclusion in the OBC list. Similarly, the Muslim Jamadar community was recommended to be added to the list the day (April 21, 2010) it filed an application: a feat considering the pace with which govt machinery moves as also the intricate natureof the task.
The OBC Commission matched the astonishing alacrity and took just a day to recommend inclusion of Gayen (Muslim) and Bhatia Muslim communities in the list, four days for Muslim Chutor Mistri community, and less than a month for inclusion of a dozen other Muslim communities to the OBC list.
The affidavit of West Bengal govt, which is under fire for alleged arbitrary inclusion of 77 castes, 75 of them Muslims, was full of surprises. In some cases, the survey for sub-categorisation of communities was conducted even prior to community members filing an application before the Commission seeking their inclusion in the OBC list. Surveys for some Muslim communities — Kazi, Kotal, Hazari, Layek and Khas — were done in June 2015 but they had filed applications much later, in some cases after nearly a year or two.
“It was only after a detailed enquiry and/or upon consideration of the material before it in oral or documentary nature, that a final report on each of the 34 communities was prepared along with the final recommendation by the Commission,” the state said in response to the CJI D Y Chandrachud-led bench’s Aug 5 order seeking information about the process adopted for inclusion in OBC list. On Aug 5, SC had asked WB to “explain the process”
followed for designating 77 communities (75 of them Muslims) as OBCs between 2010 and 2012 and the nature of survey carried out on the twin aspects of social and educational backwardness and inadequacy of representation in services of the state. The Mamata Banerjee govt had appealed against a Calcutta HC decision to quash such inclusions in OBC list without following the procedure. SC had refused to stay HC order.
The affidavit filed by Abhijit Mukherjee, additional secretary and ex-officio joint commissioner of reservation at backward classes wel- fare department, stated that the process commences with an application by individuals who seek inclusion in the OBC list detailing the name of class, size of its population, its place of concentration, along with social, educational, matrimonial, occupational and economic data. The affidavit said the threetier process was scrupulously followed by the state.
After submission of such an application, the commission carries out field surveys through its members (before 2012) or through state govt’s Cultural Research Institute (CRI) and the anthropologists with them (after 2012). During such a survey, the commission issues public notice regarding hearing on the application as well as objections to the claim.
At the hearing, the commission examines records, survey inputs, inquiries and material adduced during public hearings, to either accept the application or reject it. On acceptance, it recommends inclusion of a community in the OBC list, which the state said is “ordinarily binding” on govt. It is then placed for approval of the Cabinet. After such approval, it is published in the official gazette.
