Discussion
The Economic basis of poverty among forward classes was first introduced for reservation by the government under the Prime Ministership of :
Answer: C
The economic criterion was first introduced under P. V. Narsimha Rao.
In September 1991 the Narasimha Rao government issued an office memorandum that, alongside the Mandal reservation of 27 per cent for backward classes, reserved a further 10 per cent of central government posts for economically backward sections of the people not covered by any existing scheme of reservation. In Indra Sawhney v. Union of India (1992) the Supreme Court struck down this 10 per cent, holding that reservation under Article 16(4) could not rest on economic criteria alone.
Nehru and Shastri introduced no such reservation. The Modi government's 103rd Amendment of 2019, providing 10 per cent for economically weaker sections, came later, so it was not the first.
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