G. Rohini is a former judge in India who served as the first female chief justice of the Delhi High Court and chairperson of the Rohini Committee, which was set up in October 2017 to look after the subdivision of other backward class groups.
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G. Rohini was born on Thursday, April 14, 1955, in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India (age 68; as of 2023). Her zodiac sign is Aries. Rohini completed her Bachelor of Science degree in 1976 from Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana. She then went on to study law at Andhra University Law School, Visakhapatnam, where she graduated with first class honours.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′ 5″
Weight (approximately): 60kg
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
family
Parents and siblings
Rohini’s mother’s name is G. Savitri. She is a housewife.
G. Rohini (extreme right) with her mother, former Delhi Governor Anil Baijal
husband
There is not much information about G. Rohini’s marital status.
caste
G. Rohini belongs to OBC community.
Profession
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Rohini was admitted as a lawyer on December 18, 1980 and joined the office under the leadership of lawyer Sri Koka Raghava Rao, the then Chairman of Andhra Pradesh Bar Council. She had the opportunity to be actively involved in legal journalism, initially as a reporter at Andhra Pradesh Law Journals, founded and edited by Koka Raghava Rao. In 1985, she was promoted to Executive Editor of AP (Andhra Pradesh) Law Journal. Rohini practices primarily before the Andhra Pradesh High Court, Administrative Tribunals and Civil Courts, appearing in all types of writ petitions, civil, criminal, labor and service matters.
Kaka Raghava Rao and G. Rohini
On January 12, 1995, she was appointed Government Pleader in the Andhra Pradesh High Court and continued in that position until her promotion to Judge. As Government Advocate, she has responsibility for a range of departments including Food and Civil Supply, Science and Technology, Environment, Energy, Finance and Planning, and Employment and Training.
Judge
andhra pradesh high court
On June 25, 2001, she was sworn in as Additional Judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court. On July 31, 2002, she was appointed as a Permanent Judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court, where she presided over a wide range of cases, including constitutional and criminal cases. She has served as Director General, Andhra Pradesh State Legal Services Authority and Director, Andhra Pradesh Judicial Academy. She also headed the Andhra Pradesh Juvenile Justice Commission and released a manual on women’s rights.
G. Rohini as Judge of Andhra Pradesh High Court
chief justice of delhi high court
In 2014, she succeeded NV Ramana, the former Chief Justice of India, and became the first female judge to serve as Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court. She served for three years and retired on April 17, 2017. During her tenure, she was involved in various landmark cases such as the dispute between the Center and the state over the exercise of executive powers in Delhi, the drop in pleas raised by telecom companies over phone calls, privacy issues surrounding messaging platform WhatsApp and the Comptroller and Comptroller of India and audit of distribution companies by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG).
Rohini committee chairman
On October 2, 2017, President Ram Nath Kovind appointed a committee to review the subdivision of Other Backward Classes, exercising powers under Article 340 of the Constitution. The 5-member committee, chaired by G. Rohini, is tasked with ensuring that backward sections of the OBC community get the benefits of reservation in educational institutions and government jobs. The sub-category seeks to create quotas within 27% reservation to provide greater opportunities to historically underrepresented and marginalized OBC communities. The committee, later known as the Rohini Committee after its chairman, had 12 weeks to submit its report, but its term was extended nearly 14 times for various reasons, including the COVID-19 pandemic. On July 31, 2023, nearly six years later, the Rohini Commission submitted its report to the President of India, but the report was not made public as the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party government said it would The committee’s recommendations are discussed with all stakeholders before any conclusions are made. The Rohini Committee was given four tasks:
- Check for unfair distribution of benefits among OBCs listed in the central list.
- Propose scientific methods and parameters for subclassification within OBC.
- Identify various castes or communities and classify them into their respective sub-categories.
- Study entries in the OBC Central List and recommend corrections for duplications, ambiguities, inconsistencies, and spelling or transcription errors.
According to reports, the Rohini Committee recommended that the 2,633 OBC castes in the central list be divided into four sub-categories numbered 1, 2, 3 and 4. It is proposed to divide the 27% OBC quota reservation into 2%, 6%, 9% and 10% respectively for these sub-categories.
Facts/Trivia
- G. Rohini’s full name is Gorla Rohini.
- In 2018, the Rohini Committee analyzed data on 1.3 lakh central government jobs and OBC admissions to central higher education institutions in previous years. Analysis shows that 97% of the benefits of reservations go to only 25% of OBC castes, while the remaining backward castes remain marginalized.
- The committee’s analysis found that around 983 OBC communities (37 per cent of the total) were not represented in work or educational institutions. This highlights the need for sub-categorization within the OBC community.
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