Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde. File.
| Picture Credit score: EMMANUAL YOGINI
The Maharashtra authorities on January 27 issued a notification to recognise as Kunbis all blood relations of the Maratha neighborhood members whose Kunbi caste data have been discovered.
Kunbi, an agrarian neighborhood, falls within the Different Backward Courses (OBC) class, and Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange, who spearheads the agitation over the reservation difficulty, has been demanding Kunbi certificates for all Marathas.
Additionally learn: Maratha quota demand | Maharashtra’s winter of caste discontent
The notification says the draft guidelines could also be known as the Maharashtra Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, De-Notified Tribes, Nomadic Tribes, Different Backward Courses and Particular Backward Class (Regulation of Issuance and Verification of) Caste Certificates (Modification) Guidelines, 2024.
The notification says that the Kunbi caste certificates will likely be issued upon submission of an affidavit by the applicant establishing relations along with his blood relations — uncle, nephew and different members of his household in addition to “patriarchal” relations, who’ve discovered Kunbi data being the candidates’ “sage soyare” (blood relations).
After conducting a discipline inquiry and verification, the Kunbi caste certificates will likely be issued instantly, it mentioned.
The phrase ‘sage soyare‘ contains relations of the applicant’s father, grandfather, nice grandfather and in earlier generations forming out of marriages throughout the similar castes. This may embrace relations forming out of marriages throughout the similar caste, it mentioned.
The foundations say ‘sage soyare‘ had been relations of individuals belonging to the Maratha neighborhood whose data of being Kunbi have been discovered and will likely be given Kunbi caste certificates.
Relations forming out of marriages throughout the similar caste of an individual who has file of being a Kunbi, can even be given the caste certificates, it mentioned.
“All of the ‘sage soyare’ being in relation of the individuals belonging to the Maratha neighborhood, whose file of being Kunbi has been discovered shall be given certificates on the premise of the Kunbi data of such individuals belonging to Maratha neighborhood,” the notification mentioned.
