How mandal commission was formed

Mandal commission:The Mandal Commission was established in India in 1979 by the Janta Party government under Prime Minister Morarji Desai. Its mandate was to "identify the socially or educationally backward." The head of the commission was Indian parliamentarian Bindheshwari Prasad Mandal with the objective of questioning seat reservations and quotas for people to redress caste discrimination, and used eleven social, economic, and educational indicators to determine backwardness. In 1980, the commission's report affirmed the affirmative action practice under Indian law whereby members of lower castes (known as Other Backward Classes (OBC) and Scheduled Castes and Tribes) were given exclusive access to a certain portion of government jobs and slots in public universities, and recommended changes to these quotas, increasing them by 27% to 49.5%. Mandal Commission was one of the important aspects of the social justice movement in post-Independence India.