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Reservation Debate in India

The document discusses reservation policies in India, specifically the recent Jat protests over reservations. It notes that the Indian constitution provides for reservations for scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, and other backward classes in education and jobs. However, there are no clear criteria for determining which groups qualify as backward. This has led to many groups demanding reservations, including recent violent protests by Jats in Haryana that caused deaths and billions of dollars in losses. The reservation system remains controversial with arguments on both sides around merit versus addressing historical disadvantages, and whether it has achieved its aims after decades of implementation.

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Reservation Debate in India

The document discusses reservation policies in India, specifically the recent Jat protests over reservations. It notes that the Indian constitution provides for reservations for scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, and other backward classes in education and jobs. However, there are no clear criteria for determining which groups qualify as backward. This has led to many groups demanding reservations, including recent violent protests by Jats in Haryana that caused deaths and billions of dollars in losses. The reservation system remains controversial with arguments on both sides around merit versus addressing historical disadvantages, and whether it has achieved its aims after decades of implementation.

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RESERVATION IN INDIA

~With special reference to Jaat Protests.

The greatest evil in the modern civilization is the constant urge to outrun others.
In order to achieve that, we search for ways to bend the rules, its basic human
thinking. In India, Constitution of India provides reservation to backward classes
i.e. Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) in education and job
opportunities. Reservation was introduced to uplift the backward classes, till now
the same is prevailing, which according to some is hampering the growth of our
country. Mandal Commission under the leadership of Morarji Desai gave
recommendations for OBC reservation also which was later on passed by
parliament.

There are no codified criteria as to who will come under as backward class. Some
talk about minority, others about economic, social conditions etc. Due to this
everyone wants their share of the cake, which leads to various protests.
Sometimes Jain community, Muslims, Patels and more but most recent of them
all is “Jaat Protest”. It serves as an example of gross violence and unrest on mass
scale. So many people die every day that we’ve never actually checked to make
sure that the sun would rise without a human sacrifice. In Haryana, protest for
reservation triggered violent clash better civilians and army in Sonipat, Rohtak,
Jhajjjhar and other districts. Police and onlookers describes the initial phase of
the protests as "peaceful"1. Violence outbreak started in Northern Haryana and
spread to neighbouring states. By 22 February, the protests were estimated to have
caused a loss of ₹340 billion (US$5.1 billion) in northern India.2 Hundreds of

1
Jaat quota stir: How violence started; a protest on JNU row, hostel raid by cops (New Delhi). The Indian
Express. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
2
"'Jaat Quota Protests Cost Rs. 34,000 Crore Loss to Northern States'". NDTV. 22 February 2016.
people died in the protest, destroyed their own property. Finally, government
accepted their demands which only added to already problem of reservation.

The Caste based reservation system is an inconclusive debate with no clear


outcomes. There is little proof that it has made a difference to the backward
classes over the forty years of practicing it, but the system cannot be scrapped or
changed easily as the social disadvantages remain a contentious problem
The Union HRD Ministry's proposal of 27 per cent reservation for OBC students
in Centrally-funded universities has re-ignited the merit vs caste debate in the
education sector, reviving the commotion the Mandal commission suggestion in
1991.Choices are clearly divided between those who feel that the reservations are
nothing but a political gimmick and should be opposed at all costs, and those who
say the move will genuinely help lift the status of the backward classes.3

Reservation in education is barring the deserving candidate from getting


admissions in good universities. Some philosophers believe that India has lost its
pace for the development due to the reservation in India, because more deserving
persons were not offered the positions which they deserved on the bases of acts
done in past. Government should take this issue seriously and do something about
the rising upheaval regarding this matter before it gets too late.

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http://www.legalserviceindia.com/articles/rsv.htm (last visited 22-04-2016)

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