The Madhya Pradesh Government has urged the Supreme Court to treat the 50% cap for reservation as “flexible”, permitted to be overlooked in “special situations”, while seeking the validation of a law which enhances quota for Other Backward Classes (OBC) from 14% to 27% in State services.
The Madhya Pradesh State law breaks the 50% reservation ceiling established by a nine-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court in the Mandal Commission case 33 years ago.
The State has argued that the increase in OBC reservation was necessary to combat “entrenched social isolation and exclusion” faced by more than half its popula
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