Key Points
The commission, headed by Justice G. Rohini, a retired chief justice of the Delhi High Court, was set up in October 2017 to examine the sub-categorisation of OBCs to ensure equitable distribution of reservation benefits..
Though it is not yet known how the panel has sub-categorised the OBCs and split the 27 percent reservation for the category in central government jobs and educational institutions, government sources said the commission has found around 200 religiously-restricted entries in the central list of OBCs, where Hindus belonging to specific occupational communities were not given OBC status unlike their Muslim counterparts...
The Rohini Commission had earlierfound that just about 40 of 5,000-6,000 castes/communities among the OBCs which constitute less than one percent of the category have cornered 50 percent of the reservation benefits in admissions to central educational institutions and recruitment to central services...
It was in 1980, soon after theMandal Commissionsubmitted its report recommending 27 percent reservation to OBCs in central government jobs and educational institutions, that the Centre came out with the first list of OBCs..
The Rohini Commission was originallymandatedto look at the distribution of reservation benefits at the central level.Its terms of reference werelater expandedto include examining of and recommending correction of any repetition, ambiguities, inconsistencies and spelling errors in the central list of OBCs...
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