Rajasthan Govt Defends In High Court Classification Of Transgender Persons As OBCs, Says Reservation Policy Falls In Executive Domain

Rajasthan government's Department of Social Justice and Empowerment has defended before the High Court its circular classifying transgender persons as Other Backward Classes (“OBCs”), instead of providing horizontal reservation to them.The government in its response to a plea challenging the January 12, 2023 circular has said that the domain of policy making, includes the reservation...