Updated Mar 09, 2021 | 11:48 IST
A five-judge bench saw fit to bring up the Mandal verdict as it hears petitions on a Maharashtra law providing quotas for Marathas in admissions and jobs in the state. The Supreme Court of India. | Photo Credit: PTI
Key Highlights
The historic verdict that is now under the spotlight is that from the Indra Sawhney v Union of India case.
The verdict was important, firstly, in outlining the criteria used to evaluate whether a particular group qualified for reservation. But the apex court also reiterated the 50 per cent limit to vertical quotas delineated in previous judgements delivered in 1963 and 1964.
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Er. Prabhat Kishore
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The Constitution of India ensures right to equality for its citizens, but due to social discrimination a large section of society has minimal representation in services & other sectors. To cope up the situation of Socially & Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC), the Second Backward Classes Commission headed by Sri B.P. Mandal was set up by the Janata Party government on 1st January 1979. The Commission submitted its report on 31st December 1980, but it lay in deep freeze for whole decade of Congress regime. When the Janata Dal government came to power in 1989, notification for 27% reservation for SEBC in services of Central Government & its public sector undertakings was issued on 13th August 1990.
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Prabhat Kishore
The Constitution of India ensures right to equality for its citizens, but due to social discrimination a large section of society has minimal representation in services & other sectors. To cope up the situation of Socially & Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC), the Second Backward Classes Commission headed by Sri B.P. Mandal was set up by the Janata Party government on 1
st January 1979. The Commission submitted its report on 31
st Dec 1980, but it lay in deep freeze for whole decade of Congress regime. When the Janata Dal government came to power in 1989, notification for 27% reservation for SEBC in services of Central Government & its public sector undertakings was issued on 13