UP cabinet accepts report on OBC reservation in city physique polls

Express News Service

LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh cabinet, on Friday, permitted the suggestions of the ‘Backward Classes Commission’ constituted to look into the problem of reservation to OBCs within the city native physique elections that are due within the state and mentioned it could be offered earlier than the Supreme Court the place the matter is sub-judice.

State Urban Development Minister AK Sharma mentioned that the report was submitted to CM Yogi Adityanath on Thursday night time and it was taken up on the cabinet assembly on Friday.

Sharma mentioned {that a} provisional notification concerning the native physique elections was issued on December 5. After this, some petitions had been filed in Allahabad High Court which ordered the state authorities to arrange a devoted fee to conduct an empirical examine on the backwardness of the OBCs throughout the city native our bodies (ULB) and advocate the reservation.

The minister mentioned that after the approval of the report by the state cabinet, the UP authorities was prone to current it earlier than the Supreme Court throughout the subsequent two days. He additionally said that the state authorities was dedicated to offering full reservation to the OBC class in native physique elections.

The High Court had requested the state authorities to go forward with civic polls with none reservation for OBCs. He added that the High Court had issued the order on December 27, 2022, and the state authorities had arrange a five-member “Uttar Pradesh State Local Bodies dedicated Backward Classes Commission” on December 28, 2023.

Meanwhile, the UP authorities had approached the Supreme Court in opposition to the High Court order which had stayed the reservation course of and had directed the state authorities to conduct city native physique polls earlier than March 31. The Supreme Court stayed the High Court order on January 4.

In reality, the UP city growth division had made a provision of 27 per cent reservation for OBC mayors and chairpersons.

The fee was arrange underneath the chairmanship of retired Justice Ram Avtar Singh and it was requested to fulfil the mandate laid down underneath the triple-test method and compile the report by March 31.

The UP authorities had informed the apex court docket that it could get the elections performed after an empirical inquiry to check the character and results of backwardness on OBCs throughout the city native our bodies within the state by the five-member fee. It had additionally assured the apex court docket that reservation of the seats for OBCs can be introduced in city civic our bodies on the idea of the fee’s report.

The subsequent listening to within the case is scheduled to happen on April 11.

Meanwhile, the fee collected the info and figures from the 75 districts and summoned the information on the OBC inhabitants throughout the localities from the native administration.

As per the extremely positioned sources, the 350-page confidential report contains the district-wise particulars of different backward lessons. “It is believed that the OBC statistics are different from what was available so far,” mentioned the sources. 

The sources claimed that on the idea of the suggestions, a significant change in reservation configuration on mayoral, municipality chairman and Nagar Panchayat chief seats was anticipated. Moreover, many unreserved seats could also be reserved for OBCs following the suggestions of the report.

LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh cabinet, on Friday, permitted the suggestions of the ‘Backward Classes Commission’ constituted to look into the problem of reservation to OBCs within the city native physique elections that are due within the state and mentioned it could be offered earlier than the Supreme Court the place the matter is sub-judice.

State Urban Development Minister AK Sharma mentioned that the report was submitted to CM Yogi Adityanath on Thursday night time and it was taken up on the cabinet assembly on Friday.

Sharma mentioned {that a} provisional notification concerning the native physique elections was issued on December 5. After this, some petitions had been filed in Allahabad High Court which ordered the state authorities to arrange a devoted fee to conduct an empirical examine on the backwardness of the OBCs throughout the city native our bodies (ULB) and advocate the reservation.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

The minister mentioned that after the approval of the report by the state cabinet, the UP authorities was prone to current it earlier than the Supreme Court throughout the subsequent two days. He additionally said that the state authorities was dedicated to offering full reservation to the OBC class in native physique elections.

The High Court had requested the state authorities to go forward with civic polls with none reservation for OBCs. He added that the High Court had issued the order on December 27, 2022, and the state authorities had arrange a five-member “Uttar Pradesh State Local Bodies dedicated Backward Classes Commission” on December 28, 2023.

Meanwhile, the UP authorities had approached the Supreme Court in opposition to the High Court order which had stayed the reservation course of and had directed the state authorities to conduct city native physique polls earlier than March 31. The Supreme Court stayed the High Court order on January 4.

In reality, the UP city growth division had made a provision of 27 per cent reservation for OBC mayors and chairpersons.

The fee was arrange underneath the chairmanship of retired Justice Ram Avtar Singh and it was requested to fulfil the mandate laid down underneath the triple-test method and compile the report by March 31.

The UP authorities had informed the apex court docket that it could get the elections performed after an empirical inquiry to check the character and results of backwardness on OBCs throughout the city native our bodies within the state by the five-member fee. It had additionally assured the apex court docket that reservation of the seats for OBCs can be introduced in city civic our bodies on the idea of the fee’s report.

The subsequent listening to within the case is scheduled to happen on April 11.

Meanwhile, the fee collected the info and figures from the 75 districts and summoned the information on the OBC inhabitants throughout the localities from the native administration.

As per the extremely positioned sources, the 350-page confidential report contains the district-wise particulars of different backward lessons. “It is believed that the OBC statistics are different from what was available so far,” mentioned the sources. 

The sources claimed that on the idea of the suggestions, a significant change in reservation configuration on mayoral, municipality chairman and Nagar Panchayat chief seats was anticipated. Moreover, many unreserved seats could also be reserved for OBCs following the suggestions of the report.