This is false propaganda of the upper caste antagonists spread with the intention of purposely defaming the commission and sabotaging the recommendations forwarded by it. Mandal Commission prepared two separate questionnaires for rural and urban areas. From every district two villages and one urban block were randomly selected. A complete survey of these villages and blocks was conducted through state government. Such as survey is unprecedented in India and even till today there has not been a survey of this magnitude. A computer based analysis of this information was done by NIC (National Informatics Center). The 11 criteria identified by a team of social scientists were applied to this information and commission identified 3473 socially, educationally and economically backward Hindu and Non-Hindu communities.

1931 was the last census to have conducted a caste based enumeration. After independence Nehru government and upper caste elite removed the category of caste from census under the pretext of doing away with casteism.  This was a scheme to hide the real conditions of the backward classes. If this is the case, then what is wrong in estimating the population of OBCs on the basis of 1931 census.

 The estimate was also arrived at by the commission with the use of statistical methods (Trend Analysis Estimation and Extrapolation).

Commission prepared a statewise list of backward castes. The population for Dalits, Adivasis, OBCs, minorities and upper castes according to 1931 census was sent to every state government. Every state government, using statistical methods derived population growth rates and arrived at the current populations. All these statewise estimates were collated and the commission arrived at a following castewise breakup: Dalits – 15 %, Adivasis – 4.2 %, (Hindu and non-Hindu) OBCs – 52 % Minority high castes – 7.76 %, Hindu high castes - 8.02 %.

What is a more scientific method than this one? And to avoid this lack of information in future and in order to have factual information for the society, Mandal commission recommended caste based census. Unfortunately, a resolution in favour of this recommendations forwarded by V. P. Singh government was thwarted by Congress, BJP and other elitist members of the parliament.