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23/07/22 07:13 AM IST

Karnataka Commission recommends 33% quota for OBCs in urban and local body polls

In News 
  • A commission led by former Karnataka High Court judge K Bhakthavatsala, to study the suitable political representation in the urban and local body elections, submitted a report to Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai recently. 
Major Recommendations 
  • Reserve 33% seats for OBCs, including minorities, in ULB elections (44% of the population in Karnataka comes from OBC background)
  • Ensure the aggregate of all reservations of seats does not exceed 50%
  • Bring all ULB election wings under the control of the Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms
  • Make term of office of Mayor and Deputy Mayor 30 months in all city corporations like in Bangalore BBMP
  • Provide OBC reservations for the office of Mayor and the Deputy Mayor in BBMP
  • Similarly, Recently Supreme Court accepted the recommendations of the Banthia commission to apply 27 per cent OBC reservations in local body elections in Maharashtra.
Article 243T 
  • Seats are reserved for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in every Municipally.
  • Not less than one-third of the total number of seats reserved for women
  • The office of Chairpersons in the Municipalities shall be reserved for the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and women in such manner as the Legislature of a State may, by law, provide.
  • In December 2021 the Supreme Court directed that reservation for OBCs in local bodies will not be permitted unless they fulfil the triple test ( laid down in the SC’s own 2010 decision)
OBC Reservation 
  • The Kalelkar Commission, set up in 1953, was the first to identify backward classes other than the Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) at the national level.
  • The Mandal Commission Report, 1980 estimated the OBC population at 52% and classified 1,257 communities as backward.
  • It recommended increasing the existing quotas, which were only for SC/ST, from 22.5% to 49.5% to include the OBCs.
  • The central government reserved 27% of seats in union civil posts and services for OBCs [Article 16(4)].
  • The quotas were subsequently enforced in central government educational institutions [Article 15 (4)].
  • The 102nd Constitution Amendment Act, 2018 provided constitutional status to the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC).
Source- PIB

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