Editing Other Backward Class (section)

===Kalelkar Commission===
{{Main|Kalelkar Commission}}

Adjacent is the distribution of population of each religion by caste categories, obtained from merged sample of Schedule 1 and Schedule 10 of available data from the [[National Sample Survey Organisation]] 55th (1999–2000) and [[National Sample Survey Organisation]] 61st Rounds (2004–05) Round Survey.<ref>{{cite web |last=Sachar |first=Rajindar |title=Sachar Committee Report(2004-2005) |publisher=Government of India |year=2006 |url=http://www.biharanjuman.org/sachar_committee_report.pdf |access-date=2008-09-27 }}</ref>

The [[Kalelkar Commission|First Backward Classes Commission]] was established by a presidential order on 29 January 1953 under the chairmanship of Kaka Kalelkar and submitted its report on 30 March 1955. It had prepared a list of 2,399 backward castes or communities for the entire country, of which 837 had been classified as the "most backward". Some of the most notable recommendations of the Kalelkar Commission were:

# Undertaking caste-wise enumeration of the population in the census of 1961;
# Relating the social backwardness of a class to its low position in the traditional caste hierarchy of Indian society;
# Treating all women as a class as "backward";
# Reservation of 70 percent of seats in all technical and professional institutions for qualified students of backward classes.
# Reservation of vacancies in all government services and local bodies for other backward classes.

The commission in its final report recommended "caste as the criteria" to determine backwardness. However, the report was not accepted by the government, which feared that the backward classes excluded from the caste and communities selected by the commission might not be considered, and those in most need would be swamped by the multitudes, thus receiving insufficient attention.{{citation needed|date=November 2013}}