the mandal commission to recommend the reservation for obc was set up in the year
Mandal Commission The Mandal Commission was established in India in 1979 by the Janata Party government under Prime Minister Morarji Desai[1] with a mandate to "identify the socially or educationally backward."[2] It was headed by Indian parliamentarian B.P. Mandal to consider the question of seat reservations and quotas for people to redress caste discrimination, and used eleven social, economic, and educational indicators to determine backwardness. In 1980, the commission's report affirmed the affirmative action practice under Indian law whereby members of Other Backward Classes (OBC), were given exclusive access to a certain portion of government Jobs and slots in public universities, and recommended changes to these quotas, by 27% [1] Mobilization on caste lines had followed the political empowerment of ordinary citizens by the constitution of free India that allowed common people to politically assert themselves through the right to vote.[3]