MPPSC 2022 Prelims Paper-I · Question 22 of 100

Correct — C, Five. The Madhya Pradesh State Backward Class Commission (Amendment) Act, 2021 fixes the number of non-official members of the Commission at five.

• (a)Three — Too few — the 2021 amendment fixes the non-official strength at five, not three.
• (b)Four — Understates the amended composition — four is not the figure fixed by the 2021 Amendment Act.
• (d)Six — Overstates the amended composition — six is not the figure fixed by the 2021 Amendment Act.

State Backward Class Commissions became central to OBC reservation politics after the Supreme Court's March 2021 ruling in Vikas Kishanrao Gawali v. State of Maharashtra struck down OBC quotas in local-body elections for want of rigorous, commission-backed empirical data satisfying the 'triple test' laid down earlier in K. Krishna Murthy v. Union of India (2010). States, including Madhya Pradesh, amended their Backward Class Commission laws in 2021 to strengthen these bodies so they could generate the data needed to justify OBC reservation in panchayat and municipal elections.

MPPSC likes precise numeric/compositional questions on state-specific commissions right after they are amended, since the exact composition is fresh, checkable, and easy to test against nearby wrong numbers.

• Madhya Pradesh State Backward Class Commission (Amendment) Act, 2021 fixes the number of non-official members at five
• The 2021 amendment followed the Supreme Court's 'triple test' requirement for OBC local-body reservation (Vikas Kishanrao Gawali case, March 2021)
• The 'triple test': set up a dedicated commission, empirically investigate local-body backwardness, and cap total reservation (including OBC) within 50%

• Confusing the National Commission for Backward Classes (a constitutional body under Article 338B) with state-level Backward Class Commissions (statutory, state-Act bodies)
• Mixing up member counts across different states' Backward Class Commission Acts

MPPSC tests exact numeric composition of MP-specific bodies right after amendment Acts — expect similarly precise questions on other state commissions' member counts.

No directly related past PYQ was found.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  The Supreme Court's 'triple test' for granting OBC reservation in local body elections was originally laid down in which case?

  • (a)Indra Sawhney v. Union of India
  • (b)K. Krishna Murthy v. Union of India
  • (c)Vikas Kishanrao Gawali v. State of Maharashtra
  • (d)M. Nagaraj v. Union of India

  Answer(b) K. Krishna Murthy v. Union of India (2010) laid down the triple test; it was reaffirmed and applied in Vikas Kishanrao Gawali (2021).

• practice — not a real PYQ

  The National Commission for Backward Classes was given constitutional status by which amendment?

  • (a)93rd Amendment
  • (b)102nd Amendment
  • (c)105th Amendment
  • (d)97th Amendment

  Answer(b) The 102nd Constitutional Amendment Act, 2018 inserted Article 338B.