Who is the Chairman of the State Commission for Backward Classes appointed by…

State Commissions for Backward Classes are statutory bodies set up by individual state governments (paralleling the National Commission for Backward Classes) to examine claims for inclusion or exclusion of communities from the state's backward-classes list and to safeguard their interests. Such a commission is typically headed by a retired High Court judge, appointed through a state government notification for a fixed term (commonly three years).

Acting under this framework, the Bihar Government issued a notification on 2 January 2022 appointing Justice Sanjay Kumar, a retired judge of the Patna High Court, as Chairman of the Bihar State Commission for Backward Classes for a period of three years from the date he assumed office.

Why the other options do not fit the record:

• Justice Balmiki Prasad Sinha does not appear in the Bihar Government's notification for this commission — a similarly spelled name is not a substitute for the actual gazetted appointee.

• Justice Iqbal A. Ansari is a retired Patna High Court judge who has held other public appointments (such as chairing the Punjab State Human Rights Commission), but he is not the person named in this specific January 2022 Bihar notification — a mix-up between two different retired Patna High Court judges.

• The notification names exactly one chairman, so an option suggesting multiple simultaneous appointees does not match the record.

• Since one of the listed names is indeed the gazetted appointee, an option denying that any of them holds the post is incorrect.

Cross-check: multiple independent current-affairs references covering Bihar Government appointments in early 2022 consistently record Justice Sanjay Kumar, retired Patna High Court judge, as the chairman appointed for this three-year term — independently confirming the option above.