Question

Mandal Commission recommended the following percentage of reservation for socially and educationally backward classes in civil posts/services.
A.22%
B.27%
C.15%
D.7.5%

Answer 1

Hint: The Mandal Commission was set up by the then Prime Minister Morarji Desai’s Government on 1st January 1979. The commission was chaired by Bindeshwari Prasad Mandal.

Complete Step by Step answer: The First Backward Class Commission was set up by Jawaharlal Nehru’s government in January 1953. It was chaired by Kaka Kalrlkar, a social reformer. Then a Second Backward Class Commission was established by the then Prime Minister Morarji Desai’s Government on 1st January 1979 under the chairmanship of Bindeshwari Prasad Mandal. Hence, the name Mandal Commission. Some recommendation was made and a report was submitted by the commission after two years on 31 December 1980. Some recommendations are as follows:

- It recommended the reservation of 27 percent of jobs for Other Backward Classes or OBCs in central service, Public sector undertakings and affiliated colleges and government-aided firms in the private sector.
- Some quantum of reservations in all scientific, technical and professional institutions of education run by the central and state governments.
- The commission also made some recommendations in economic and occupational structure.

The Government of India accepted the recommendations of the Mandal Commission in August 1990:

- 27 percent reservations have been made in central Government jobs and various percentages in state Government jobs.
- Many welfare schemes have been launched such as Swarnima, National Backward Classes Finance and Development Corporation etc.

Hence, The correct option is " B ".

Note: When the then Prime Minister VP Singh announced the implementation of the recommendation of the Mandal Commission in 1990 led to violent ‘Anti Mandal’ protests in different parts of the country. It led to the rise of the ‘Mandal issue’ in national politics.