schedule castes

The Government of India has appointed how many Scheduled Areas and
Scheduled Tribes Commission since independence? [A]2 [B]4 [C]5 [D]7
2 So Far, two have been appointed. Centre will soon appoint a Scheduled Areas and
Scheduled Tribes Commission – the third since independence – to examine various
issues of development and welfare of tribals, especially primitive tribal groups.








Children born out of inter-caste marriages cannot be denied the
benefits of reservation: SC
 The Supreme Court has rules that children born out of inter-caste marriages cannot be denied the benefits of
reservation on the mere ground that one of the parents belonged to an upper caste.

 This important verdict has been given by a bench of justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana Prakash Desai.
 The ruling has upheld an appeal filed by a person challenging the Gujarat Government’s decision to strip him of
reservation benefits under ST-quota as his father belonged to the upper caste Kshatriya community.