Goemkarponn desk
PANAJI: Advocate General Devidas Pangam has opined government to direct the OBC commission to submit population data to SeC for reservation.
“I have suggested that the OBC Commission should send a report to the State Election Commission according to the available information about the OBC population,” said AG Pangam.
He further said that it all depends on how fast the OBC Commission sends the report.
“Once the OBC commission sends a report, the Election Commission and the government will discuss and decide the date of the election,” he said.
Panama said that the government had sent the file regarding reserving wards for OBC communities for panchayat elections to him.
“When I checked the file, details were incorrect and not as per the directives of the Supreme court; the commission should do the date and then submit it to the SEC. I have sent my opinion to the government and that the data needs to be changed,” he added.
Pangam said that since the Apex Court has mandated all States to follow the triple test while reserving wards for OBC communities, the government will have to constitute an OBC Commission to conduct a survey to collect data on the OBC population in every village panchayat and accordingly reserve wards for them.
On May 10, the Supreme Court had held that no reservation for Other Backward Classes can be provisioned until the triple test formality, including setting up a dedicated commission to conduct a contemporaneous rigorous empirical inquiry into the nature and implications of the backwardness of local bodies within the state, is followed “in all respects”.
