{"id":175377,"date":"2022-03-22T20:23:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T14:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=175377"},"modified":"2022-03-22T20:23:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T14:53:52","slug":"a-solution-in-search-of-a-problem-on-10-reservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-solution-in-search-of-a-problem-on-10-reservation\/","title":{"rendered":"A solution in search of a problem: on 10% reservation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Government passed 103rd Constitutional Amendment Act <\/strong>creating a 10% reservation for economically weaker sections (EWS), for those, who have an income threshold of Rs. 8 lakh per annum. This article discusses potential implication of the EWS Amendment, followed by some alternatives:<\/p>\n

Issues with the amendment:<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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  1. Excludes no one: <\/strong>As per India Human Development Survey (IHDS), the annual household incomes of 98% houses are less than 8 lakh. Other exclusion criteria applied (e.g. amount of land owned and size of home), the Amendment still covers 95% of households.<\/li>\n
  2. High costs to other reserved categories: <\/strong>The Amendment removes 10% jobs from \u201copen\u201d category i.e., which can be taken by anyone – SC, ST, or OBC. Hence, it reduces opportunity for the reserved groups. It can also lead to a demand for more reservation as the amendment breaches the 50% limit.<\/li>\n
  3. Getting caste certificates: <\/strong>As a large number of SC\/ST\/OBC households report difficulties in obtaining these certificates. A few non-reserved individuals also get fake certificates.<\/li>\n
  4. Specialized fields: <\/strong>Skill demands are rapidly outpacing supply of candidates in specialized fields. In such cases, the compulsion to select a candidate from a particular category including EWS, acts as a restraint.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    Need for redesigning reservations:<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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    1. Spreading the benefits: <\/strong>This can be done within the existing framework and ensure that individuals use their reserved category status only once in a lifetime. This would result in spreading the benefits broadly within the reserved community and more upward mobility.<\/li>\n
    2. Focus on skilling<\/strong>: To ensure that citizens regardless of caste, class, or religion are able to participate in the economic growth. For ex: IHDS data shows that at Class 1 level \u2013 68% of forward class students can read, 56% OBC, SCs (45%), STs (40%). Thus, there is a need to target such inequalities.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Source: <\/strong>This post is created based on the article \u201cA solution in search of a problem: on 10% reservation\u201d <\/strong>published in The Hindu<\/strong> on 22nd<\/sup> March 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      The Government passed 103rd Constitutional Amendment Act creating a 10% reservation for economically weaker sections (EWS), for those, who have an income threshold of Rs. 8 lakh per annum. This article discusses potential implication of the EWS Amendment, followed by some alternatives: Issues with the amendment: Excludes no one: As per India Human Development Survey… Continue reading A solution in search of a problem: on 10% reservation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10498],"class_list":["post-175377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}