Maharashtra government has recently passed the Maratha Reservation Bill.
As per the bill, Maharashtra will create a new category called SEBC (socially and educationally backward class) in order to give reservation to Marathas.
This has been passed for reservation by citing ‘extraordinary circumstance’ as rights of neither OBCs nor Marathas are affected.
This move has been recommended by the Maharashtra State Backward Class Commission headed by Justice N G Gaikwad (retired).