{"id":258807,"date":"2023-09-05T20:57:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T15:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=258807"},"modified":"2023-09-05T20:57:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T15:27:42","slug":"not-a-job-for-quotas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/not-a-job-for-quotas\/","title":{"rendered":"Not A Job For Quotas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>&#8211; The post is based on the article <strong>\u201cNot A Job For Quotas\u201d <\/strong>published in <strong>\u201cThe Times of India\u201d <\/strong>on <strong>5th September 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: <\/strong>GS2- Polity<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance-<\/strong> Issue of reservation<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>&#8211; Recently, protests were held in Maharashtra over reservation demand for Maratha community.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are the issues with the current system of reservation?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Governments are resorting to the use of reservations for <strong>politically influential groups<\/strong>. The strategy to build <strong>electoral alliances<\/strong> and address the<strong> challenging employment situation. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These short-term tactics often lead to <strong>long-term adverse consequences<\/strong>. Consider the situations in <strong>Tamil Nadu and Karnataka<\/strong>. In these states, governments near the end of their terms made<strong> ill-conceived changes<\/strong> to existing <strong>reservation policies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Tamil Nadu, in 2021, the government introduced <strong>internal reservations for the Vanniyar community.<\/strong> However, this move was struck down by the Supreme Court because it lacked the necessary <strong>data-based justification. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Karnataka, recent <strong>adjustments to reservations <\/strong>have also faced <strong>legal challenges.<\/strong> The Supreme Court expressed concerns about their validity.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>legal framework<\/strong> governing reservations has consistently stressed that caste should merely be an i<strong>nitial criterion<\/strong> for <strong>assessing backwardness<\/strong>. It must be complemented by<strong> data on other pertinent factors. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, governments frequently overlook these aspects. Once such policies are adopted, future administrations invest <strong>substantial political capital <\/strong>in <strong>seeking compromises. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This strategy neither generates<strong> employment opportunities<\/strong> nor is free of <strong>associated costs.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source&#8211; The post is based on the article \u201cNot A Job For Quotas\u201d published in \u201cThe Times of India\u201d on 5th September 2023. Syllabus: GS2- Polity Relevance- Issue of reservation News&#8211; Recently, protests were held in Maharashtra over reservation demand for Maratha community. What are the issues with the current system of reservation? Governments are&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/not-a-job-for-quotas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not A Job For Quotas<\/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":[212,225,10496],"class_list":["post-258807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-polity","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258807","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=258807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}