There is no judicial hurdle in giving 27 percent reservation to the OBC class in Madhya Pradesh. The Supreme Court made this clarified by accepting the decision of the Madhya Pradesh High Court as correct. The court said that 27 percent of OBC reservation is not banned.
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In 2019, the Kamal Nath government increased the reservation of OBC class from 14 to 27 percent. A special permission petition was filed by the Youth for Equality Organization. It was rejected by the Supreme Court.
On Monday, Justice MM Sundresh and Justice Rajesh Bindal heard the SLP in the Supreme Court court number 8. On behalf of the OBC Mahasabha, the side was placed before the court through Advocate Varun Thakur and Advocate Ramkaran.
Jabalpur High Court ordered orders on 26 February On 26 February 2025, a joint bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court Jabalpur Chief Justice Suresh Kumar Kath and Judge Vivek Jain ordered to follow the 27% OBC reservation law and said that 27% OBC reservation is not banned. The SLP was filed in the Supreme Court by the Youth for Equality Organization against that order.
70 petition related to the case in Supreme Court The High Court had stayed 13 percent reservation for OBCs in March 2019. Under this interim order, several other appointments were also banned later. The related petition was transferred from the High Court on 2 September 2024. Similarly, the state government has transferred about 70 petitions related to OBC reservation to the Supreme Court, which is yet to be decided.
When the recruitment stopped, the formula of 87:13 came After the High Court order, recruitments were banned in MP. The government and the State Public Service Commission were under pressure due to lack of recruitment. In the year 2022, the General Administration Department created an 87:13 formula and suggested the release of the results to MPPSC based on it.
The court also flagged off this formula. In this, 13% of the seats are held, which was announced by the Kamal Nath government to the OBC. These seats will be placed on hold until the court pronounces the decision in favor of the OBC or unreserved class.
Know, the reason for holding 13% posts Before the year 2019, in MP, OBC was given 14% in government jobs, 20% to ST and 16% to SC. The remaining 50% of the posts were filled with unrestrained categories. That is, the reservation limit was 50%. In 2019, the then Kamal Nath government increased the OBC reservation from 14 per cent to 27 per cent. Due to this, the limit of reservation increased to 63 percent.
This increased limit of reservation was challenged in the High Court. The court stayed the decision to give 27 per cent OBC reservation on 20 January 2020. The court said in its order that OBCs should be given 14 percent reservation in recruitments as before.
The High Court gave this order in 1992 on the basis of the Supreme Court’s decision of Indra Sahni vs. Government of India. In this decision, the Supreme Court had said that the reservation limit in any state cannot exceed 50 percent. After this decision, the MP government filed a petition to transfer the matter to the Supreme Court.
After this, the High Court said that even the High Court will not hear the transfer petition until the Supreme Court clears its stand. Since then, more than 85 petitions have been filed in the case. All cases are under consideration.
