[OBC Quota Case] MP High Court Gives 27% OBC Reservation In State

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Despite pending petitions in the Supreme Court regarding the 27 percent OBC reservation, the Madhya Pradesh High Court’s decision has cleared the path for this reservation in the current sub-engineer recruitment and other similar recruitments.

[OBC Quota Case] MP High Court Gives 27% OBC Reservation In State

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Recently, the High Court’s principal bench in Jabalpur dismissed a writ petition challenging the 27 percent reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBC), thus allowing the recruitment for the remaining 13 percent of the sub-engineer posts in the 2022 recruitment drive.

The recruitment drive, conducted by the MP Employees Selection Board, aimed to fill 3,400 posts across 27 departments and had initially declared results based on the 27 percent OBC reservation.

However, writ petition 6036-2023 was filed in the Indore bench of the High Court, challenging this reservation. As a result, the Board withheld 13 percent of the posts, following an 87%-13% formula, while the case was pending.

Advocate Rameshwar Singh Thakur stated,

“We approached the High Court’s principal bench, which transferred the petition from the Indore bench. After hearing the writ petition, the Jabalpur High Court dismissed it in February 2024, but due to the elections and the model code of conduct, the pronouncement was delayed until today.”

With the High Court’s dismissal of writ petition 6036/2023, the 27 percent reservation in the sub-engineer recruitment is now confirmed. Thakur added that the state government should now proceed with the appointment for the remaining 13 percent posts in all previous recruitments where the 87%-13% formula was used.

Despite pending petitions in the Supreme Court regarding the 27 percent OBC reservation, the Madhya Pradesh High Court’s decision has cleared the path for this reservation in the current sub-engineer recruitment and other similar recruitments, Thakur concluded.

Earlier, the Supreme Court requested a response from the Madhya Pradesh Government and others regarding a petition challenging the MP High Court’s interim order, which extended the stay on the state’s decision to increase OBC reservation from 14% to 27%. The matter is being heard by a bench comprising Justices S Ravindra Bhat and Aravind Kumar.