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Home Dictionary Name: scheduled caste Page: 3Special Backward Category
Special Backward Category, means socially and educationally backward classes of citizens declared as a Special Backward Category by the Govern-ment. [Maharashtra State Public Services (Reserva-tion for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, De-Notified Tribes (Vimukta Jatis) Nomadic Tribes, Special Backward Category and Other Backward Classes) Act, 2001, s. 2(m)]...
Weaker sections
Weaker sections, 'weaker sections', in this context, means not every 'backward class' but those dismally depressed categories comparable economically and educationally to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled tribes, State of Kerala v. N.M. Thomas, AIR 1976 SC 490: (1976) 2 SCC 310: (1976) 1 SCR 906. (Constitution of India, Art. 46)...
Profess
Profess, means to avow publicly; to make an open declaration of ....... To declare one's belief in, Webster's New Word Dictionary.The word 'profess' in the Presidential Order appears to have been used in the sense of an open declaration or practice by a person of the Hindu (or the Sikh) religion, Punjabrao v. D.P. Meshran, AIR 1965 SC 1179 (1184). [Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order (1950) clause 3]...
Casting vote
Casting vote, the vote given by the chairman or president of a deliberative assembly when the suffrages of the meeting are equal. The chairman, though not disqualified by law from voting, Nell v. Longbottom, 1894 (1) QB 767, is usually not entitled to vote in the first instance.The Speaker of the House of Commons (though he was no vote in the first instance) has a casting vote, and by the practice of the House gives it in favour of a motion or bill, so as to give opportunity for further consideration. So has the mayor or other chairman at a meeting of a town council (English) (Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50), s. 22, and Sched. II., r. 11), and the Chairman of a (English) Country Council (Local) Government Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 41), s. 75), and the chairman of a parish meeting, or Parish Council (Local Government Act, 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73), Sched. I., Pt. 2, r. 8, and Pt. 3, r. 10). These Acts have been replaced, except in regard to London, by the Local...
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