Rayalaseema Budaga/Bedajangam Welfare Association has demanded restoration of Scheduled Caste quota to the community.
The nomadic community has been enjoying SC status in Karnataka, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu and were issued SC certificates in AP from 1995 to 2012, but the quota was later withdrawn, association president T. Manohar told the media here. However, people of Budaga/Bedajangam community in Telangana were recognised as SCs, he added.
The government should scrap G.O. 144 and restore the SC quota to the community. It should constitute a commission to study the backwardness of the community as promised by the Minister for Social Welfare R Kishore Babu in the Legislative Assembly, he said.
