BC quota panel gets one more year to submit report
This is the fifth extension being given to the BCC for examining the demand for internal reservation within the Most Backward Classes (MBCs) and Denotified Communities (DNCs) and submit a report.
The previous deadline of July 12, 2025 was extended till July 12, 2026 through a government order on Wednesday.
The examination of the demand for internal reservation and submission of a report was added as an additional term of reference (ToR) in January 2023 to the present BCC, which was constituted in November 2022 with a set of six terms of reference.
Interestingly, the three-year term of the BCC, headed by Justice V Bharathidasan, retired judge of the Madras High Court, is ending by November. The government is likely to extend its term. When the BCC was tasked with studying the demand for internal reservation in January 2023, it was asked to submit its report in three months.
However, the government has since extended the time limit four times over the past 2.5 years, citing that the commission requested extensions due to lack of quantifiable data of all communities included in the MBC and DNC lists.
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