National Commission for Backward Classes : Important Topics for UPSC Exams

National Commission for Backward Classes

National Commission for Backward Classes is an Indian statutory body under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment established on 14 August 1993.
It was constituted pursuant to the provisions of the National Commission for Backward Classes Act, 1993.
In 2017, a bill seeking to grant constitutional status to the National Commission for Backward Classes is scheduled to be passed in Parliament. LokSabha has already passed it.
It is 123rd Constitutional amendment bill.
The new commission “shall examine requests for inclusion of any class of citizens as a backward class in the lists and hear complaints of over-inclusion or under-inclusion of any backward class in such lists and tender such advice to the central government as it deems appropriate”.
The proposed Commission will hear the grievances of socially and educationally backwards classes, a function which has been discharged so far by the National Commission for Scheduled Castes.
It also seeks to insert a new article 342A so as to provide that the President may, by public notification, specify the socially and educationally backwards classes