KOLKATA: Bengal’s new OBC checklist, tabled by state govt within the meeting on Tuesday, has minor modifications in comparison with the earlier checklist. Whereas the sooner checklist, struck down by the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom, had 113 OBC subgroups with 77 Muslim and 36 others, the brand new OBC checklist has 140 subgroups, 80 of them Muslim.Supreme Courtroom is listening to a problem by Bengal govt in opposition to the HC scrapping of the sooner checklist, impacting round 5 lakh OBC certificates. The state had advised the SC that it will full its contemporary OBC survey by the tip of June. The survey tabled on Tuesday additionally indicated that state is listening to representations from 50 extra OBC teams.The proportion of Muslims within the new OBC checklist is 57.1. Whereas there are 73.4% Muslims within the OBC ‘A’ class (in a complete of 49 subgroups, 36 are Muslims and 13 non-Muslims), OBC ‘B’ has 48.3% Muslims (there are 91 subgroups, of which 44 are Muslims, and 47 are non-Muslims).The HC ruling had lowered 17% OBC reservations within the state to 7%. The report tabled on Tuesday permits Bengal govt to revive OBC reservation to 17%, allocating 7% for OBC ‘A’ and 10% for OBC ‘B’. That is set to extend barely with 50 further teams being evaluated.The authorized impasse on the OBC problem had an overriding influence in Bengal, from pausing admissions to colleges, faculties and universities to state govt recruitments.CM Mamata Banerjee, talking within the meeting on Tuesday, had stated that the issuance of OBC certificates for school admissions and govt jobs would resume instantly. “Many recruitment boards stored the method on maintain because of the authorized confusion. That may now be resolved,” Banerjee had stated, including, “Backwardness, not faith, was the only real criterion within the contemporary OBC survey.”On Tuesday, Bengal chief of opposition Suvendu Adhikari had alleged that the OBC checklist was flawed and stemmed from “appeasement politics”. He stated that there have been solely 11 Muslim teams out of 66 OBC teams earlier than 2010. Adhikari went on to assert that OBC in Bengal meant ‘one-sided beneficiary’.Questioning Adhikari’s info, Trinamool Congress had stated in an announcement on Tuesday: “Suvendu Adhikari, everyone knows that ‘divide and rule’ is the official coverage of BJP, and your solely agenda for the 2026 elections is to pit Hindus in opposition to Muslims. However CM Mamata Banerjee has made it crystal clear that backwardness, not faith, is the only real criterion for OBC standing. The brand new checklist was ready with that precept in thoughts. So cease deceptive the individuals together with your lies.”