the mandal commission to recommend the reservation for obc was set up in the year 1979.
the mandal commission to recommend the reservation for obc was set up in the year 1979.
the mandal commission to recommend the reservation for obc was set up in the year?
1979
in 1989, the then-prime minister of india v. p. singh accepted and implemented nationwide the proposals of the mandal commission, which had been established by the morarji desai-led janata party government in 1979. the proposals of this commission recommended 27% reservation for other backward classes (obcs) in public sector undertakings and state-level educational institutions. obc's were a group of castes which fell in-between the upper castes and dalits; they were historically not oppressed and socially boycotted as the dalits and adivasis, but were still socially, educationally and economically backward compared to the upper castes. though some indian states such as tamil nadu and andhra pradesh had already implemented the obc reservations earlier in their higher educational institutions, this decision now forced every indian state to implement obc reservation. by combining this 27% quota for obc's and the earlier 22.5% reservation for the sc/st's, the percentage of general (unreserved) seats in any medical, engineering or other institute falling under the state government reduced to 50.5%. this included even the unaided private colleges. as a result, there was widespread protests from the students belonging to the unreserved category (forward castes), claiming that they were being discriminated and that merit was being discarded.
2006 indian anti-reservation protests
there is also a debate about the estimation logic used by the mandal commission for calculating obc population. yogendra yadav, psephologist turned politician, agrees that there is no empirical basis to the mandal figure. according to yadav, "it is a mythical construct based on reducing the number of sc/st, muslims and others and then arriving at a number."









































yadav argues that government jobs were availed to those who by their own means had got higher education, and that reservation for obc's was only one of the many recommendations of the mandal commission, which largely remain unimplemented after 25 years.
mandal commission