What is the role of the President in specifying socially and educationally backward classes in India?
The President of India has the authority to specify socially and educationally backward classes in any State or Union territory. After consultation with the Governor of the State, the President may issue a public notification identifying the socially and educationally backward classes for the purposes of the Constitution in relation to that State or Union territory. Parliament may include or exclude any socially and educationally backward class from the list specified in the notification, but any subsequent notification cannot vary the initial notification issued by the President.