what is Mandal Commission
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Mandal Commission was set up on Jan 1
in year 1979 by then Prime Minister Late Sri Morarji Desai. The
commission was headed by then Member of Parliament Bhindeswari Prasad
Mandal from Bihar. Mandal commission was started and pushed forward by National
Janata Party.
The Mandal commission was set up to identify in the country,
various socially, economically and educationally backward castes and
classes. The people belonging to these castes and classes were to be
classified under OBC or Other Backward Classes. Then they were
recommended for 27% reservation in jobs in the government offices and public
sector undertakings. The idea is to give a social lift upwards to the
other backward classes. The OBC were to be identified from Hindu and non
Hindu population not belonging to forward castes and SC/ST.
Mandal commission took 11 parameters related to education of men
and women, their ages at the time of marriages, their social status, number of
men and women who work on daily labour, women and men who studied up primary
and upto 10th standard, their property value as compared to the average in
their state and so on.
On their basis Mandal commission included 100s of classes and
castes into OBC. The report was submitted in 1980. They identified about
5000 castes as part of OBC. The commission said that they were really
backward. They
recommended for relaxation of the upper limit for age for candidates belong to
these classes.
The recommendations of Mandal Commission in 1980, were not implemented soon on as the government had changed. But in 1990 again Prime Minister VP Singh of Janata Party government implemented reservations for OBC as per the commission’s recommendations. However, some students file petition against the order. It was a hot debate in SC and nationwide too. Implementation of reservations would be unfair to the other castes as per equality of all castes. Also identification of backwardness is not correctly done using just the caste.
Supreme Court stayed the government’s order in 1990. In 1992 the Supreme Court upheld the reservations. SC believed that reservations for OBC will uplift and improve the status of OBC population. SC believed that the caste could be taken as an indicator for backwardness.
Answer:
The Mandal Commission, or the Socially and Educationally Backward Classes Commission, was established in India on 1 January 1979 by the Janata Party government under Prime Minister Morarji Desai with a mandate to "identify the socially or educationally backward classes" of India. It was headed by the late B.P.
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