OBC STATUS

SOCIAL STATUS

The Kerala Public Service Commission [ KPSC] has classified Vokkaligas [ Vakkaliga as per Gazette] as OBC at sl.no.66 under the head OTHER BACKWARD CLASSES IN KERALA STATE. [ as applicable to entire state].

Ref is as follows:

( As amended by the Scheduled Castes and Sceduled Tribes Order (Amendment Act) 1976 and as amended by the Constitution (Sceduled castes) Orders (Second Amendment) Act, 2002 (Act 61 of 2002) vide Part VIII- Kerala- Schedule I notified in the Gazette of India, dated 18 December, 2002) and (As amended by the Scheduled Castes and Sceduled Tribes Orders (Amendment) Act 2002 (Act 10 of 2003) vide Part VII- Kerala- Second Schedule notified in the Gazette of India dated 8 January, 2003)