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Ref : GS/AUGUST/2022/I-day-75YRS DATE : 15.08.2022

To
All Members
Dear Brothers and Sisters

Sub : A MISSION WITH VISION 2047 FOR OBC’s- “Amrit Kaal-The Golden Period”

At the outset we congratulate and wish all our members celebrating 75th year of our independence.
We Indians always believe in magical numbers and let this I-day bring us the magic- the 75th year of
our independent India. It is high time to be aware of our past and plunge into future action. Forcasting
the next 25 years is very vital to achieve our vision 2047 – “Rightly representing in all facets of life
that is socially, economically and in educational background”.

Background to the issue of Backward classes:

After India achieved independence, affirmative action started for the “Depressed classes” or the
Schedule castes and tribes providing benefits to the most backward and socially ostracised of India’s
communities. However, there were no benefits or even a list of the country’s other backward classes
and we were politically and socially marginalized in society, and behind forward castes in fields of
education, employment and economic development. To address this problem, the country’s first
Backward Class commission was set up headed by Kaka Kalelkar in 1953. This was also called the
Kalelkar Commission. In 1955, the commission submitted its report but the then union Government
rejected its recommendations pointing that the criteria for backwardness was not justifiable and also
for various other reasons.

Then came the Mandal commission officially known as the Socially and Educationally Backward
Classes Commission (SEBC), was set up on 1st January 1979 by the Indian government under the
prime minister Morarji Desai. The Commission was chaired by an MP, Bindeshwari Prasad Mandal.
The chief mandate of the Mandal Commission was “to identify the socially or educationally
backward classes of India and to consider reservation as a means to address caste inequality and
discrimination”. The Commission submitted its report to the President on 31st December 1980.

The commission developed 11 criteria to identify the backward classes who were called “Other
Backward Classes” or OBCs. The criteria are classified as social, economic and educational.

The recommendations of the Mandal Commission are as follows:

1. Reservation of 27% public sector and government jobs for OBCs.
2. Reservation of 27% for promotions at all levels for OBCs in public service.
3. The reserved quota, if unfilled, should be carried forward for a period of 3 years and deserved
after that.
4. Age relaxation for OBCs to be the same as that for SCs and STs.

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 5. A roster system should be prepared for the backward classes on the pattern of that for the SCs
and STs.
6. Reservation to be made in PSUs, banks, private sector undertakings receiving government
grants, colleges and universities.
7. The government to make the necessary legal provisions to implement these recommendations.

Presently the centre has appointed the Justice Rohini Commission on October 2017 to
“examine the extent of inequitable distribution of benefits of reservation among the castes or
communities included in the broad category of Other Backward Classes… included in the
central list” the commission is yet to submit its report and the tenure of the commission was extended
till January 2023.

The prime requirement to implement the recommendations of the commissions in a more fruitful way
is to take caste based census. Not Knowing the number of people who are members of such
communities is a serious blindspot in implementing the policies for the welfare of the targeted OBCs.

The following matters needs to be taken up with the Union Government for consideration and
implementation, without which, the largest population of this country will ever remain unrepresented
in the top rungs of power.
1. Caste-wise Census-2021.
2. Separate ministry for OBCs.
3. Adequate budget allocation for OBC welfare and creation of Special Component plan for
OBCs in the Union Budget.
4. Removal of creamy layer Interreggnum, the income ceiling has to be revised wherein the
salary income and agriculture income should not be taken into account for income criteria.
5. 50% ceiling on reservation to be removed.
6. Reservation in private sector.
7. Reservation to OBCs in Local Bodies.

With our vision 2047 – “Rightly representing in all facets of life that is socially, economically and
in educational background”, We once again wish Happy 75th Independence day and let us put all our
efforts unitedly to clinch our vison 2047 with a single agenda the welfare of OBCs shedding all other
differences and showcase our fraternity.

“ALL THE BEST FOR OUR VISION 2047 ”

JAI HIND

AICBOBCEWA ZINDABAD

OUR FRATERNITY ZINDABAD

CHAIRMAN GENERAL SECRETARY PRESIDENT

T Shankar Kumar Kranti Sriram

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