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LUCKNOW: A day after the Allahabad excessive court docket ordered to drop the backward classes quota from the forthcoming city native physique elections, the UP authorities on Wednesday set up a five-member fee to conduct a survey of the municipal our bodies to assess the political backwardness of OBCs on the idea of which quota for backward classes might be fastened within the ULB polls.
The backward classes fee, which has a tenure of six months, can be headed by retired excessive court docket decide Justice Ram Avatar Singh. All members of the fee, together with the chairman, are from the backward classes. Justice Singh and one other member, retired IAS officer Chob Singh Verma, are Jats.
Different members of the fee are, former IAS officer Mahendra Kumar and two authorized consultants — Santosh Kumar Vishwakarma and Brijesh Kumar Soni. “We’re going to observe the mandate of the UP authorities and acquire the information on the OBC group,” Chob Singh Verma, one of many 4 members, informed TOI. Verma has been a member of the state public companies tribunal.
On Tuesday, the Lucknow bench of Allahabad excessive court docket had directed the state authorities to conduct the ULB polls by January 31 with out OBC reservation because the Supreme Court docket-mandated triple take a look at components had not been utilized whereas fixing the quota for backward classes. The UP authorities on December 5 had issued a draft order preserving 27% seats of 762 city native our bodies reserved for the OBCs.
After the HC verdict, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had mentioned that the ULB polls can be performed solely after extending quota advantages to the backward classes. “Within the context of city native physique polls, a fee can be set up which might fix the reservation for the OBCs as per the triple take a look at components,” he tweeted on Tuesday.
“The fee would submit a report in regards to the political backwardness of the OBCs. On the idea of that report, the federal government would fix the backward classes quota making use of the triple take a look at components,” mentioned a authorities spokesperson.
In the meantime, an city improvement division official mentioned that the fee was doubtless to acquire information from the income division. “
“We’ve got to come to a conclusion that there isn’t a want to conduct door-to-door surveys as such an train will take a number of months. As a substitute, the fee would acquire information from the income division throughout 75 districts to discover out the standing of the political backwardness of the OBCs in a locality,” mentioned a senior officer.
In the meantime, reacting to the allegation of the federal government’s ‘unpreparedness’ which led to the HC verdict on OBC quota, a authorities spokesperson mentioned that every one earlier governments since 1994 used the identical speedy survey on the idea of which backward quota was fastened for the 2022 ULB polls.
“The identical components was getting used for the OBC reservation within the 2022 native our bodies that was adopted within the polls held in 1995, 2000, 2006, 2012 and 2017. The elections have been held on the idea of the estimates collected by the speedy surveys of the OBC households. Even the panchayat elections have been based mostly on the speedy surveys performed in Might 2015. And the identical yardstick was adopted within the 2021 rural physique elections,” he mentioned.
The backward classes fee, which has a tenure of six months, can be headed by retired excessive court docket decide Justice Ram Avatar Singh. All members of the fee, together with the chairman, are from the backward classes. Justice Singh and one other member, retired IAS officer Chob Singh Verma, are Jats.
Different members of the fee are, former IAS officer Mahendra Kumar and two authorized consultants — Santosh Kumar Vishwakarma and Brijesh Kumar Soni. “We’re going to observe the mandate of the UP authorities and acquire the information on the OBC group,” Chob Singh Verma, one of many 4 members, informed TOI. Verma has been a member of the state public companies tribunal.
On Tuesday, the Lucknow bench of Allahabad excessive court docket had directed the state authorities to conduct the ULB polls by January 31 with out OBC reservation because the Supreme Court docket-mandated triple take a look at components had not been utilized whereas fixing the quota for backward classes. The UP authorities on December 5 had issued a draft order preserving 27% seats of 762 city native our bodies reserved for the OBCs.
After the HC verdict, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had mentioned that the ULB polls can be performed solely after extending quota advantages to the backward classes. “Within the context of city native physique polls, a fee can be set up which might fix the reservation for the OBCs as per the triple take a look at components,” he tweeted on Tuesday.
“The fee would submit a report in regards to the political backwardness of the OBCs. On the idea of that report, the federal government would fix the backward classes quota making use of the triple take a look at components,” mentioned a authorities spokesperson.
In the meantime, an city improvement division official mentioned that the fee was doubtless to acquire information from the income division. “
“We’ve got to come to a conclusion that there isn’t a want to conduct door-to-door surveys as such an train will take a number of months. As a substitute, the fee would acquire information from the income division throughout 75 districts to discover out the standing of the political backwardness of the OBCs in a locality,” mentioned a senior officer.
In the meantime, reacting to the allegation of the federal government’s ‘unpreparedness’ which led to the HC verdict on OBC quota, a authorities spokesperson mentioned that every one earlier governments since 1994 used the identical speedy survey on the idea of which backward quota was fastened for the 2022 ULB polls.
“The identical components was getting used for the OBC reservation within the 2022 native our bodies that was adopted within the polls held in 1995, 2000, 2006, 2012 and 2017. The elections have been held on the idea of the estimates collected by the speedy surveys of the OBC households. Even the panchayat elections have been based mostly on the speedy surveys performed in Might 2015. And the identical yardstick was adopted within the 2021 rural physique elections,” he mentioned.
