I want my community to be included in the state OBC list in Kolkata, what is the procedure before the state OBC commission?
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The state OBC commission is constituted under West Bengal Premises Tenancy Act 1997 and examines requests for inclusion in the OBC list applicable in Kolkata. The Calcutta High Court has held that inclusion must be based on quantifiable data of social and educational backwardness. You must submit a representation to the commission with ethnographic and socio-economic data. The commission conducts a study and recommends to the state government for inclusion. The state may notify the community as backward after considering the recommendation. The commission's recommendation is advisory but the state must record reasons for disagreement. Refusal to consider the representation is challengeable before the Calcutta High Court.
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