Lucknow: With the crucial assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh around the corner, the Akhilesh Government, on Thursday, approved the conversion of 17 Other Backward Castes (OBCs) to Scheduled Castes (SC) list at a cabinet meeting.
The proposal that is aimed at wooing the OBCs in the upcoming elections will now be sent to the Centre for clearance.

The 17 sub-castes which the Government wants included in the SC category are Kahar, Kashyap, Kewat, Nishad, Bind, Bhar, Prajapati, Rajbhar, Batham, Gaur, Tura, Majhi, Mallah, Kumhar, Dheemar and Machua. This is not the first time that the state has approved the inclusion of these 17 OBC castes in the SC list.