Madhya Pradesh OBC reservation and the evidentiary basis for quotas
Quick dive
- Madhya Pradesh’s High Court struck down the State’s 27% reservation for Other Backward Classes, prompting the Congress to announce a Supreme Court challenge.
- The Opposition alleged that the State failed to defend the quota effectively and relied on old or inadequate data despite spending resources on data collection.
- The case concerns whether a State can justify reservation through current empirical material on backwardness, representation and administrative efficiency.
- Congress leaders questioned the relevance of a survey of about 10,000 people to a State with a population of roughly 7.26 crore.
- exam_relevance: tests the article-specific constitutional mechanics of OBC quota litigation—empirical identification, data quality and judicial review—echoing recurring UPSC questions on reservation ceilings and backward-class commissions.
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