RESERVATION BASED ON CASTE

                                                     RESERVATION BASED ON CASTE

Despite the fact that India is the world's largest democracy, the caste system has resulted in a slew of scandals. For as long as anybody can remember, the caste system has been an essential component of Indian society. The "lower castes" were subjugated by the "upper castes" under this system. As a result, the Indian government implemented caste-based reservation in government positions and educational institutions in order to better the plight of the lower castes.

In India, caste-based reservations have a long history.

The Manusmriti is the first written literature to discuss the caste-based system, or "dharma of the four social classes," in its totality. It claims that each person's job is predetermined by their birth.

Some of the most noteworthy examples in modern India date from 1933, when the then-Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Ramsay MacDonald, introduced the Communal Award. Muslims, Sikhs, Indian Christians, Anglo-Indians, and Europeans each receive their own representation. Mahatma Gandhi was outraged by the prize and fasted to death to convey his discontent. It did, however, garner a lot of support from people like B. R. Ambedkar. Gandhi broke his fast after many negotiations, and the Poona Pact was the product of those negotiations.

Minorities have demanded "special status" before, and this isn't the first time they've done so. Incidents date back to 1891, when there was a demand for caste-based reservation in government posts in the Princely State of Travancore. The first recognized case occurred in Kolhapur in 1902, when backward classes/communities were given 50% reservation in services (BCs).

The most major post-independence step was the formation of the Mandal Commission in 1979. It was chaired by Indian lawmaker Bindheshwari Prasad Mandal and used eleven social, economic, and educational indicators to establish "backwardness." The commission's report from 1980 affirmed Indian law's affirmative action practice, in which members of lower castes (known as Other Backward Classes and Scheduled Castes and Tribes) were given exclusive access to a certain percentage of government jobs and slots in public universities, and recommended changes to these quotas, increasing them by 27 percent to 49.5 percent.

But, now, are these caveats being implemented in the way that our policymakers intended? The response is a resounding 'NO,' because the "creamy layer" is robbing the benefits.

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