Second Backward Classes Commission is also known as ______.

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SSC MTS Previous Paper 30 (Held On: 19 August 2019 Shift 3)

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The Correct Answer is Option 2 i.e Mandal Commission.

Tendulkar committee was constituted by the Planning Commission in 2005 and the current estimations of poverty are based upon the recommendations of this committee.
- Tendulkar adopted the cost of living as the basis for identifying poverty.
Kaka Kalelkar was known as the First Backward Classes Commission formed in 1953.
Mandal Commission was formed in 1979 to determine the criteria to identify the socially or educationally backward classes of India.
- It was the second backward class commission in India.
Ambedkar was the chairman of the drafting committee that was constituted by the Constituent Assembly to draft a constitution for India.