b. p. mandal was the pm when the report of mandal commission was initially implemented.
b. p. mandal was the pm when the report of mandal commission was initially implemented.
who was the pm when the report of mandal commission was initially implemented?
b. p. mandal
the mandal commission, or the socially and educationally backward classes commission ("sebc)", 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. mandal an indian parliamentarian, to consider the question of reservations for people to redress caste discrimination, and used eleven social, economic, and educational indicators to determine backwardness. in 1980, based on its rationale that obcs ("other backward classes") identified on the basis of caste, economic and social indicators comprised 52% of india's population, the commission's report recommended that members of other backward classes (obc) be granted reservations to 27% of jobs under the central government and public sector undertakings, thus making the total number of reservations for sc, st and obc to 49%.
mandal commission
the decision to set up a second backward classes commission was made official by the president on 1 january 1979. the commission popularly known as the mandal commission, its chairman being b. p. mandal, submitted a report in december 1980 that stated that the population of obcs, which includes both hindus and non-hindus, was around 52 per cent of the total population according to the mandal commission. the number of backward castes and communities was 3,743 in the initial list of mandal commission set up in 1979-80. the number of backward castes in central list of obcs has now increased to 5,013 (without the figures for most of the union territories) in 2006 as per national commission for backward classes. mandal commission developed 11 indicators or criteria to identify obcs, of which four were economic.
other backward class