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OBC quota: Dedicated UP body to submit report within 3 months

PNS

The chairman of the five-member Uttar Pradesh Local Bodies Dedicated Backward Classes Commission, Justice (Retired) Ram Avtar Singh said the commission would submit its report to the State Government within next three months and the follow-up work would be completed in another three months.

The tenure of the commission will be six months. The government had constituted the commission earlier this week on Wednesday.

Addressing a press conference after the first meeting of the commission here on Saturday, Justice (Retired) Ram Avtar Singh said,  “The commission would do its best to complete the  work in the next three months and submit the report to the state government and the follow-up work will be taken up in next three months.”

Of the five members of the commission four were present in the meeting while one member joined the meeting through virtual mode.

Justice (Retired) Singh said the commission would visit each of the 75 districts of the state and with the assistance of the district administration conduct the survey for working out the population of the OBCs in urban areas of the state. He said the commission would also meet the elected people’s representatives in districts and would ask them to file their written complaints.