BC meet on Special Component Plan

HYDERABAD: Political leaders and representatives of Backward Classes (BC) organisations would be conducting a conference on August 28 at Jubilee Hall, Public Gardens in the city on their demand that the state and central governments draw up a ‘special component plan’ for the development of Other Backward Classes (OBCs).“The BCs have been ignored by the government in providing reservations and other benefits.The BC organisations plan to discuss extensively the problems of BCs during the conference,” said Prof Murali Manohar, chairman of Mahatma Jotirao Phule Academy of Backward Caste Development and Empowerment.Senior BJP leader Bandaru Dattatreya, TDP leader Tulla Devender Goud, TRS legislature party leader Etela Rajender and professors and students from different universities would be attending the conference.Speaking at a press conference here on Thursday Murali Manohar said that in the past 67 years of independence, the trend is only a few BC communities are getting the government benefits which are meant for all BCs.He suggested that BCs should be issued special funds for their development according to their population in the state.Prof Kancha Ilaiah said that 48 per cent of the population in the state is BC but the reservation for them is only 28 per cent in education, employment and other government schemes.He added that in 2010-11, an annual budget of `15,000 crore was announced by the government for development of BC communities, but only `4,000 crore was used to build BC welfare hostels