Justice Ram Autar Singh will decide the OBC quota in the UP Panchayat elections, know who is the new chairman of the Backward Classes Commission.

Regarding the three-tier panchayat elections in Uttar Pradesh, the Yogi government of the state has taken a big step to clear the way for OBC reservation. The government has constituted a dedicated State Backward Classes Commission to fix the quota of backward classes in the three-tier panchayat elections. An official notification in this regard has also been issued by Principal Secretary Panchayati Raj Anil Kumar.

The commission will work with a dedicated five-member team. Justice Ram Autar Singh, a retired judge of the Allahabad High Court, has been given the command of this commission. He has been made the chairman of the commission. Apart from Justice Ram Autar Singh, four other members have been included in this team, including two retired additional district judges and two retired IAS officers. The main headquarters of the commission has been set up in the capital Lucknow and it will start its work soon.

The commission constituted by the Uttar Pradesh government includes Justice Ram Autar Singh (retired) as the chairman and the members are Brijesh Kumar (retired additional district judge), Santosh Kumar Vishwakarma (retired additional district judge), Dr. Arvind Kumar Chaurasia (retired IAS), SP Singh (retired IAS).