RESERVATION : PROPER OR IMPROPER IN PRESENT INDIA ABSTRACT : Reservation can be defined as a process of facilitating a person who has category certificates. This policy was made and implemented on the basis of recommendations of Mandal Commission. The main purpose of this reservation policy was upliftment of some underprivileged classes of Indian society but this policy witnessed the rage of general class which was entirely devoid of its facilities. The policy was aimed to be implemented for ten years only but due to political insensitivity it is still continuing. So many lapses and drawbacks have raptured this policy due to its prolonged implementation. Now this policy has became a policy of the ‘Harijan Elites’ rather than of the underprivileged, weaker, poor deserving SC/ST candidates. KEY WORDS : Reservation Policy, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes, reserved categories, under privileged candidates, protests, General Community. Reservation is a process in which some particular advantages are given to a person in the field of education, scholarships, jobs and promotion or in other words it can be defined as a process of facilitating a person who has category certificates. Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Other Backward Classes (OBC) and in some states some backward classes of Muslim Community which come under the title BC(M) are the main beneficiaries of this
The Caste system has aroused much controversy than any other feature of India’s society. Every day, Dalits are butchered, assaulted, abused, raped, lynched, shot or openly mutilated without considering any consequences of the offenders. The deaths of pregnant women who are not able to pay the bribes at government hospitals, some boys with eyes raised completely out for falling in love with a girl of a superior caste, and horrid stories of employees boiled to death because of spewing out arguments with the boss are continuously reported in mainstream newspapers. After years of democracy, the social structure stands to practice the caste system disregarding abolishment laws. Every international or national effort to abolish caste differentiation and segregation has been proven ineffective. The caste system of India is a deeply inculcated social problem requiring immense commitment domestically and internationally in understanding what has stopped the measures to get rid of this ancient system and what measures are needed to complete elimination of the system.
The caste system has been extremely stable in India for over two thousand years. It is only since the more modern, independent state of India was formed that the system has come under any scrutiny at all. It is presently outlawed, but many of the practices, attitudes and traditions remain ingrained in Hindu society (University of Wyoming, 1997).
In India, we can categorize marginalized people based on caste, gender, disabled, minorities (religious, linguistic, regional), etc. Hindu people come under the majority of population, and this religion is a very fragmented religion due to Varna system, because they have adopted the Varna system. According to their occupation, before Uttar Vedik Era, its function was very smooth and there was no concept of untouchability but after this era, it continued practicing. Due to different occupations, there was the existence of caste system in Hindu religion. People can change their religion but caste can’t be changed. Because of this,
Question 1: What does the Reservation respresent to the government and citizens of Brave New World?
Firstly, the caste system reflects the inequality of Indian society. Although religion in India is characterized by a diversity of religious beliefs and practices, majority of Indian population follow Hinduism. Therefore, the dominance of Hinduism beliefs is common in India. There is a belief in caste system, as Brood said, “a system of hierarchical social organization”1. Hindu society is divided into four main classes; the priestly class, the warrior and administrator class, the producer class who is farmers and merchants and the servant class. The remaining group of people who is “outcastes” is called “untouchables” or dalit. Brodd recognizes “dalits continue to suffer terrible oppression, especially in rural communities in India”. I still could not imagine how terrible this bottom class suffers until reading Max Bearak article. All sufferings of Rohith Vemula, from the hardships of growing up poor, interactions with society in caste to scholarship revoke and suicide, happened tragically because he was born in a dalit family. This is the
United States territories are territories which they control and have gotten through fighting a war or have bought them from a different country. When the U.S had no more land to expand on they looked for new land that they could own and control. The U.S has sixteen territories in total but they are put into different categories based on their situations. This territoires are called organized territories which can be either incorporated or unincorporated and unorganized territories which can also be incorporated or unincorporated. Even though the United States own them, they still go through challenges of their own they have to face.
Reservations- the act of keeping back, withholding, or setting apart the act of making an exception or qualification an exception or qualification made expressly or tacitly
Looking upon Indian society for comparison, it is seen that the primary factor of the caste system is built
Untouchability as claimed by the Indian government is said to be abandoned 60 years ago, however still 40% of Dalits are illiterate (Around 70 million). This tells us that the caste system unfortunately still exists. The caste system is a system of class and hierarchy, it divides people in terms of classes called castes which usually determines their status in the community and therefor their livelihoods. The caste system still exists and if not constitutionally definitely socially. The caste system presence keeps different communities separated, lowers national GDP (Economic activity/development), discriminates against those of the lower caste, slows the development procedure and creates unlimited social consequences.
In the fourth theme, caste aspect is specifically added to explore students’ responses pertaining to caste issues on the campus. Earlier discussed that high number of the lower caste students on campuses have considerably influenced the campus climate of higher education institutions. The table.8 is prepared by editing two questions (Q.10 and Q.12) of the DLE survey. In the table, some items related to caste issues are presented.
Although every caste in the World State is meticulously conditioned to accept the hand they are given, there are still many citizens who are dissatisfied with the quality of life available to them in society. Knowingly or unknowingly, these outliers reject their conditioning and strive for something more, whether it be adversity, danger, or passion.
It is an age old caste system that has certain people up a ladder of social classes and that is just apart of the Indian culture. However, this system has something called quotas in their version of affirmative action which means that in a particular job there has to be a certain amount of people from a certain caste in that job. So for example if an employer has 20 jobs to fill 5 of those jobs are automatically reserved for that certain caste class. However, according to the economist, “The overall effects therefore are probably limited, and certainly hard to
Reardan is a small town about twenty-two miles from the rez which is filled with prepy white folks who are far wealthier than those on the rez. For example, “I knew that seven or eight of those Indians lived with drunken mothers and fathers. I knew that one of those Indians had a father who dealt crack and meth. I knew two of those Indians had fathers in prison. I knew that none of them was going to college. Not one of them.” (Alexie 195) Unlike people on the rez, Reardaner’s have more opportunities in achieving their goals and careers. On the rez everybody talks the same language Spokane and they all know each others families. They have annually traditions like Powwow
The quota policies have shifted the student composition in public institutions due to an increasing enrollment of lower caste students. In recent years, new student organizations have emerged across higher education institutions. These organizations build solidarity among the lower caste students and raise their consciousness on a range of issues (Mukherji, 2016). This phenomenon is challenging the historical dominance of cultural capital by the higher castes. In the recent years, the student demographics has changed but overwhelming numbers of faculty belong to the higher castes. Therefore, lower caste students face individual and institutional retaliation in the form of covert and overt aggressions. The current meritocratic arguments (against
DMK manifesto also specified its positions on several social issues. It includes Full scholarships for Scheduled caste (SC) and ST(Scheduled Tribe) communities and promise to give priority for SC/ST in the appointment of judges to the Supreme Court.DMK manifesto promises of caste based census and also proposed to recognize transgenders as third gender and getting them place in education and employment opportunities.