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Early start of Reservation What is Reservation System ? Failure Main Objective How to improve ? Why to support ? Why to protest ?

People were classified in order of their social status, initially based on Karma, Gunas, Sattav, Rajas, and Tamas. The Scheduled Castes were treated as a separate community and granted separable representation. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, recommended special privilege to the Schedule Caste and Scheduled Tribe for a limited period of 10 years. The privileges were meant for the upliftment of the lower castes. Reservation is a political, social, economic and constitutional policy to accord justice by absorbing the SCs and STs in the social mainstream.

Occupation
Karma Gunas Sattav Rajas Tamas

The Scheduled Castes (SCs), also known as the Dalit, and the Scheduled Tribes (STs) are two groupings of historically disadvantaged people that are given express recognition in the Constitution of India.

The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up around 15% and 7.5% respectively of the population of India, or around 24% altogether, The proportion of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the country's population has steadily risen since independence in 1947.

The concept of reservation was enshrined in the Constitution to allow the so-called deprived classes to come at par with the so-called privileged ones. The Constitution of India allows this kind of positive discrimination in order to bring about equality of opportunity and status in the society. The founding fathers had never intended Reservation to be a temporary phenomenon. Reservations to the underprivileged were to be extended until they were uplifted socially and stabilized economically. Reservations with the view of helping the deprived classes to gain a better footing and avail equal benefits of an independent and free nation was introduced in the system. These are laws wherein a certain percentage of total available slots in jobs and education are set aside for people from backward communities. Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Other Backward Classes (OBC) are the primary beneficiaries of the reservation policies, while there are also reservation policies for women.

Some reservations are also made for: Sons/Daughters/Grandsons/Granddaughters of Freedom Fighters Physically handicapped Sports personalities Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) have a small fraction of reserved seats in educational institutions. (Note : NRI reservations were removed from IIT in 2003) Candidates sponsored by various organizations

According to the 61st Round Survey of the NSSO, almost nine-tenths of Buddhists in India belonged to scheduled castes of the Constitution while one-third of Christians belonged to scheduled tribes. Major part of scheduled castes were Hindus by religion but belonged to castes and tribes having low population. The Sachar Committee report of 2006 also confirmed that members of scheduled castes and tribes of India are not exclusively adherents of Hinduism.

Religion

Scheduled Caste

Scheduled Tribe

Buddhism

89.50%

7.40%

Christianity

9.00%

32.80%

Sikhism

17.0%

0.90%

Hinduism

22.20%

9.10%

Jainism

2.60%

Islam

0.80%

0.50%

The main objective of Indian reservation system is to increase the social and educational status of the underprivileged communities objective of the enabling them to take their rightful place in Indian society. The reservation system exists to provide opportunities for the members of the SCs and STs so as to increase their representation in the Legislature, the executive of the nation and states, the labor force, schools, colleges, and other social institutions

The constitution of India states in article 15(4):

"All citizens shall have equal opportunities of receiving education. Nothing herein contained shall preclude the State from providing special facilities for educationally backward sections of the population. It also states that The State shall promote with special care the educational and economic interests of the weaker sections of society (in particular, of the scheduled Castes and aboriginal tribes).

We need to identify the ones who are really needy, downtrodden and under privileged. Then, we need to provide them with proper incentives such as education, opportunities and financial banking. After that real talent and hard-work should be awarded and accepted instead of blindly guaranteeing anyone a secure future merely on the basis of caste even though he/she is least deserving.

ON MERIT
Merit should be the criteria because the country needs the best of its people in order to develop and not those who are harnessing the unmerited and undeserved benefits just because they belong to a section of society which has been luckily marked in the Constitution as underdeveloped. It is so disheartening to see a well deserving candidate with promising future to lose out to another less deserving candidate because he happens to be from a reserved section of the society-fortunately or unfortunately.

Development of one section of the society should not be at the cost of the other section. Development of the society can be possible only if all the sections of the society are given equal opportunities. Opportunity for development should be judiciously distributed among all the sections of society. Opportunity in education, jobs and other fields of life should be equally distributed.

For the last 65 years we got nothing. The society more or less is the same. Since in a family a person can take advantage of reservation more than a single time, Son of a father (who have taken this benefit) also eligible to take the benefit so this heinous cycle continues and the drift between will go on increasing. Now this will replicate in case of OBCs as well

Grandfather

Father

Son

Daughter

People who are deserving but cannot afford education expenses are benefited from this system. It assures government jobs. Literacy rate is improving in India. Unemployment is slightly reduced.

The reservation system needs to be modified. Each and every person should not be given the privilege to enjoy the facilities of this system. People who deserve should be granted the permission to enjoy these benefits but those who dont deserve it and are just taking advantage of falling into a reserved category should be removed from the reserved category. Scholarships should be granted only on the basis of merit.