(i) This order announced a major policy decision.
(ii) According to this, the Mandal Commission gave a recommendation for
27 per cent of the government jobs to be reserved for the Socially and
Economically Backward Classes (SEBC) in India.
(ii) SEBC is another name for- all those people who belong to castes that are
considered backward by the government.
(iv) The benefit of job reservation was till then available only to scheduled
castes and scheduled tribes.
(r,) Now a new third category called SEBC was introduced’ Only persons
who belonged to backward castes were eligible for this quota of 27 pet
cent government jobs. Others could not compete for these jobs.