{"id":5292,"date":"2022-12-30T04:34:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T23:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5292"},"modified":"2025-03-27T05:26:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T23:56:52","slug":"triple-test-survey-in-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/triple-test-survey-in-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Triple test survey in UP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Triple Test survey<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The five-member commission will conduct a survey to ensure that the OBCs are provided reservation on the <strong>basis of the triple test<\/strong>, as mandated by the Supreme Court. This is the first time that the triple test exercise will be carried out in Uttar Pradesh.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rapid survey:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The Urban Development Department of the UP government had on April 7, 2017 issued orders to <strong>conduct a rapid survey for determining the population of OBCs.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Based on such a rapid survey in each constituency of a municipality, seats were <strong>reserved in proportion to the population of the backward class of citizens in the constituency\/ward concerned.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What is triple test?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The triple test requires the government to complete three tasks for finalisation of reservation to OBCs in the local bodies. These include:<\/li>\n<li>To set up a dedicated commission to conduct a rigorous empirical inquiry into the nature and implications of the backwardness in local bodies;<\/li>\n<li>To specify the proportion of reservation required in local bodies in light of recommendations of the commission, so as not to fall foul of overbreadth;<\/li>\n<li>To ensure reservation for SCs\/STs\/OBCs taken together does not exceed an aggregate of 50 per cent of the total seats.<\/li>\n<li>These triple test\/conditions were outlined by the <strong>Supreme Court in the case of Vikas Kishanrao Gawali vs. State of Maharashtra and others<\/strong>, decided on March 4, 2021.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Why triple test instead of rapid survey?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court said that any inquiry or study into the nature and implications of the backwardness with respect to local bodies involves <strong>ascertainment of representation in such bodies.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The court said such an exercise <strong>cannot be confined to counting of heads alone,<\/strong> as is being done through the rapid survey.<\/li>\n<li>The court said simply granting reservation on the basis of population misses a very crucial factor for determination of backwardness, and that factor is political representation of the class or group concerned<strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The High Court quoted the Supreme Court\u2019s observation in the K Krishna Murthy case, which pointed out that the nature of disadvantages which restrict access to education and employment cannot be readily equated with disadvantages in the realm of political representation<strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is the main aim of reservation policy?<\/h3>\n<p>Safeguarding the interest of historically persecuted communities to ensure that they are represented in education, employment, and politics is the main aim of reservation policy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-politics\/what-is-triple-test-survey-uttar-pradesh-obc-quota-in-urban-local-bodies-8351608\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>What is triple test survey, which UP is to carry out for OBC quota in urban local bodies<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Triple test requires completion of three tasks for reservation to OBCs in urban local bodies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}