(a) whether the Government has received any proposal regarding according Constitutional status to the National Commision for Other Backward Classes and providing more powers to the Commission on the lines of other commissions; and
(b) if so, the details thereof and the steps taken in this regard?
MINISTER OF STATE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT (SHRI SUDARSHAN BHAGAT)
(a) & (b): The proposal to give constitutional status to the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) is in the process in the Ministry. The modalities to amend the Constitution are required to give constitutional status to the NCBC takes time.