Lucknow, Oct. 12 -- Even as the Uttar Pradesh government has recently extended the tenure of the chairpersons and members of the SC-ST and Women's Commissions, several other key statutory bodies in the state have once again fallen vacant or remain defunct for years due to non-appointments.

The latest to become headless is the UP Commission for Other Backward Classes (OBC Commission) after the one-year tenure of its chairman Rajesh Verma and all but one member ended last month.

"Currently, the 28-member commission has only one member whose one-year tenure will also end shortly. The one-year term of all other members, including chairman and two vice-chairmen, ended over a month ago," OBC commission secretary Manoj Kumar Sagar said.

"We e...