Important benefits have come to thousands of scheduled castes from reservations and the decrease in unwarranted discrimination in public employment. While with regard to Scheduled Castes there was at least a common referent around the idea of caste including caste group which, as group had been subject historically to numerous discriminations at the hands of the caste Hindus summarized by the term ‘untouchability’ [1]. But with regard to backward castes there is no such single criterion which could be easily applied throughout the country for the status and economic well-being of the numerous intermediate castes between “untouchable group and the elite vary greatly from region to region” [2].