Sir, may I take it that the word `backward’ includes three categories of people, namely Scheduled Castes, and Tribals and one particular class which is not included so far, under the term `backward’ although it is educationally and economically backward? If I may say so, Sir, 90 percent.if not more of the Indian people are educationally and economically backward; the meaning of the word `backward’ seems to be vague to me. I feel I shall be failing in my duty to a particular section of the Indian people, viz., the Gurkhas, if I do not voice their feeling at this stage.
