Write a short note about Mandal Commission report
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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 commission viewed at the OBC being discriminated by the other classes. They thought that even reservations would not solve the oppression faced by the OBC in the society. The OBC were deprived of their rightful place it was believed. Also the commission wanted that the way forward castes look at the OBC must change too.
The mandal commission was set up in 1979, Under the chairmanship of BP mandal, To examine The issue of Reservation and quota for the upliftment of the backward classes other than the scheduled castes and Tribes
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