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Caste Based Reservation in India.



The caste system has been part of Indian society for almost 2000 years this system is so complicated and extremely rigid to fight with it is tough challenge. While discussing about it to remain unbiased is almost impossible, I want to address some of the important fact regarding my background so that if there is any bias reflected in this article the reader can judge it accordingly. So come from the Brahmin background and my family is middle class family. I don't get any reservation in any form. 

Reservation based on caste:

The reservation based on caste was idea emerged around 1930s and the first reservation was allowed in 1933 with the Poona pact between Gandhi and Ambedkar, Ambedkar demanded the separate electorate for the SCs and ST community , while Gandhi believed that giving separate electorate will create divide among the Hindus and there was already divide among the Hindus and Muslims and Gandhi did not wanted any other divide so they allowed the  reservation of lower caste people in election, and the further discussion on this will be dealt when India would get independence. Now came the year 1946, the constitution of India would be written and the chairman of that drafting committee was Dr B.R. Ambedkar. he was firm that he would bring reservation for all the people of SCs and STs with this he proposed reservation for SCs and ST community, with deliberate discussion constituent assembly adopted the proposal.

Logic of reservation:

The idea behind the reservation can be understood by this example. Suppose there is Women who has two children A and B. the family can afford only one litter of the milk for the children. so they divide the milk equally among these two. one day the B got sick and doctor recommended that B should get 750 ml of milk daily. So now what should mother do? Should she give milk from the A to B, if she is giving the A's milk to B.is she discriminating with A? this is the logic based on the caste-based reservation.

In 1990 the Mandal commission recommend the reservation for the other backward class that constitutes 57% of total of India's population. According to some survey 98% of the India's has faced discrimination of one form or another. And neglecting that would create economic divide in the society. Where 2%control the whole of society's resources. With now 10% reservation being given to economic weaker section it has now become too complicated.


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