In an effort to enable OBCs in 14 states to avail benefits of reservation in central government services, the government on Thursday approved the inclusion of names of some castes and communities in the central list of other backward castes.A meeting of the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh accepted the proposal of the National Commission for Backward Classes to amend the central list of OBCs.The states where OBCs will benefit are Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal and Union Territories of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Puducherry.The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment will now have to notify the amendments.The Cabinet also approved a payment security scheme for the first phase of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission. It extended the gross budgetary support to the Mission to the tune of 486 crore rupees.The scheme will facilitate setting up of 1,000 MW grid connected Solar Power Projects to achieve targets of the mission.