{"id":63157,"date":"2021-12-14T07:11:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T07:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=63157"},"modified":"2021-12-14T07:11:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T07:11:51","slug":"himachal-govt-set-up-general-category-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/himachal-govt-set-up-general-category-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Himachal govt set up General Category Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Himachal Pradesh <\/strong>govt\u00a0announced setting up a Commission for upper castes, on the lines of Madhya Pradesh. The Commission, to be named as\u00a0\u2018Samanya Varg Aayog\u2019,\u00a0will be formalized through a legislative enactment in three months\u2019 time when the state assembly meets next in February-March 2021 for the budget session of the House. A Scheduled Caste Commission is already in operation in Himachal Pradesh and is chaired by former Shimla MP Virendra Kashyap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the&nbsp;<strong>2011<\/strong>&nbsp;population census, Himachal Pradesh has a population of&nbsp;<strong>68,56,509 <\/strong>of which 19.29 lakh, which is 25.22 %, are SCs, while the other 4 lakhs are STs, which is 5.71 % and other 9.03 lakh are OBCs, which is 13.52%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Himachal Pradesh govt\u00a0announced setting up a Commission for upper castes, on the lines of Madhya Pradesh. The Commission, to be named as\u00a0\u2018Samanya Varg Aayog\u2019,\u00a0will be formalized through a legislative enactment in three months\u2019 time when the state assembly meets next in February-March 2021 for the budget session of the House. A Scheduled Caste Commission is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":63158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2506],"tags":[253],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-63157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-december-2021","tag-himachal-pradesh-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63159,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63157\/revisions\/63159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63157"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=63157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}