OBC Reservation- Relevance for UPSC Exam
- GS Paper 2: Governance, Administration and Challenges– Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation.
OBC Reservation in news
- Recently, the Supreme Court (SC) has allowed Madhya Pradesh to implement 14% reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and notify the elections for nearly 23,263 local bodies within two weeks.
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SC on OBC quota in Madhya Pradesh
- The Supreme Court (SC) had on May 10 ordered the State to proceed with the elections without Other Backward Classes (OBCs) quotas.
- The Supreme Court has since then reassured itself that the State has met the ‘triple test’ criteria it had established in 2010 for OBC reservation in local bodies.
- Triple Test Criteria: The Supreme Court laid down following triple test
- A commission that undertook contemporaneous empirical inquiry into the nature and implications of the backwardness in the context of local bodies,
- Break-up of the reservation local body-wise, and
- Adherence to the 50% ceiling on quotas.