Consider the following statements and choose the correct code:
(a) A reservation of 27% was provided in public sector and government jobs for OBCs.
(b) Mandal Commission was headed by M P Mandal.

(a) is true but (b) is false.

Babu Bindheshwari Prasad Mandal was the head of Mandal Commission.

The Mandal Commission was established with the primary objective of examining the level of educational and societal disadvantages experienced by various segments of the Indian population. Its purpose was to propose methods for identifying these marginalized 'backward classes' within society and to offer strategies for alleviating their disadvantaged status. In 1980, the Commission issued its recommendations, although this occurred after the collapse of the Janata government.