{"id":11443,"date":"2021-02-17T13:40:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T08:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=11443"},"modified":"2021-02-17T13:40:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T08:10:46","slug":"reservation-its-flipside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/reservation-its-flipside\/","title":{"rendered":"RESERVATION \u2013 IT\u2019S FLIPSIDE"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Relevant for Sociology Syllabus: Paper 1<\/em><\/strong><strong> Politics and Society<\/strong><strong><em>; PAPER-2 \u2013\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong>Challenges of Social Transformation<em>)<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>(Relevant for GS Syllabus: Paper 1\u2013\u00a0poverty and developmental issues)<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><u>RESERVATION \u2013 IT\u2019S FLIPSIDE<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Reservation in India is a very hotly debated topic. Historically it was meant only for <strong><u>dalits, then it was extended to include OBC\u2019s based on Mandal Commission report (1991).<\/u><\/strong> Initially, the castes that were reported were backward in their truest sense. But, gradually the <strong>affirmative action of reservation policy<\/strong> is being diluted and destroyed for cheap political gains.<\/li>\n<li>For example, Marathas were classified as a forward caste in Maharashtra by Mandal Commission but now they also get <strong>12% quota and are classified as backward by the state government a year ago, <\/strong>in the same way, jats also got <strong>5% reservation in Haryana.<\/strong> These were done only <strong>to appease these dominant castes by political parties for their own vote banks. <\/strong>These Marathas produced many <strong>chief ministers<\/strong> yet they are considered backward, and state governments clearly buckled to their agitation.<\/li>\n<li>In Karnataka also, <strong><u>Lingayats who constitute 16% of state population and Vokkaligas who constitute 10% of the population are the most politically dominant &amp; powerful castes, a but are branded as backward classes and being 5% quota each.<\/u><\/strong> 11 of 16 chief ministers of Karnataka since independence belong to these two cases only.<\/li>\n<li>Yet, <strong>hypocritically<\/strong> they are considered backward, whereas in the central list they are classified as a <strong>forward caste.<\/strong> Essentially, what is happening right now is that almost every caste has come under the banner of Other backward classes, <strong><u>except handful castes like Brahmins, Baniya-Vaishyas, Rajputs, Thakurs, Patels, Kapus to name a few to which I belong, unfortunately.<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>If every caste is included under some or the other quota then what is the <strong>use of reservation, the basic essence of backwardness is lost.<\/strong> Being a so-called \u201cforward caste\u201d student I also had to face the brunt of this reservation system, during my entry into medical college, while my so-called <strong>\u201cbackward class\u201d <\/strong>friends got a very good college even after getting fewer marks than me, I was left alone only to curse the system.<\/li>\n<li>These \u201cbackward\u201d friends were way better than me in terms of financial &amp; social prospects, yet they reaped the fruit at the end. And this <strong>quota saga is nowhere near to ending,<\/strong> as day by day a new caste is being added to give them quotas and loot the prospects of general category students.<\/li>\n<li>The best example is present-day Maharashtra where a hefty<strong> 73% of seats are reserved, and only remaining 27% are for unreserved category <\/strong>and above that reserved category students are also allotted under just general\u00a0category if they get good ranks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevant for Sociology Syllabus: Paper 1 Politics and Society; PAPER-2 \u2013\u00a0Challenges of Social Transformation) (Relevant for GS Syllabus: Paper 1\u2013\u00a0poverty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sociology-optional"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11444,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11443\/revisions\/11444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}