Telangana became the first state to notify the classification of scheduled castes.

Telangana issued a government order (GO) on 14 April 2025, on 14 April 2025, Scheduled Castes (SC) became the first state in India to implement sub-class. Go, who Dr. B.R. Birth birth matches with anniversary. The architect of the Indian Constitution Ambedkar aims to rationalize the existing 15% reservation for SCS by dividing 59 SC subclasses into three groups based on inter-C-banks.

Group and reservation allocation:
Group I: 3.288% SC population, 15, 15, 15 reservation of the most disadvantaged communities will be obtained.
Group II: 18 Light -Profit Community, 62.74% of SC population will enjoy 9% reservation.
Group III: 26 relatively better community will get 5% reservation, which will be 33.963% of the SC population.
Legislative Process:
The Telangana Legislative Assembly was passed in 2025 last month, the castes (era of reservation) were passed last month. The bill was prepared on the basis of the commission's recommendations, a person led by Justice Shamim Akithra, who presented his report after a comprehensive study of socio-economic indicators in SC sub-seats.
Governor Jishnu Dev Verma gave his consent to the bill on 8 April 2025.
Commission work:
Following the Supreme Court's historic verdict on August 1, 2024, the Commission appointed in October 2024 received a detailed analysis of more than 8,600 representations and population distribution, literacy level, higher education entry, employment trends, financial assistance and political participation.
The Commission's period was extended by a month to address the concerns raised by several communities, ensuring that every voice was heard before the report was finalized.
Political importance:
Irrigation Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy, who led the Cabinet Sub-Committee on SC classification, called Vicks Historic. He was the Chief Minister of Go. The first copy of the reverse was presented to prepare, which stressed that the Congress government had demanded for decades.
The minister said that the current 15% reservation for SCS is based on the 2011 census, while the SC population in Telangana has increased to about 17.5%. The government plans to consider increasing the total reservation after the 2026 census data is available.
Rejection of creamy layer:
The Cabinet Sub-Committee rejected the Commission's recommendation to start a creamy layer within the SC category, ensuring that no existing profit would be thin and all SC groups were designed to increase fairness by protecting the rights of all SC groups.
This implementation is an important step towards addressing specific socio-economic and educational losses faced by various SC communities in Telangana, which is an example for other states.