The Second Backward Classes Commission (Mandal Commission) By an Order made by the President of India‚ in the year 1979‚ under Article 340 of the Constitution‚ a Backward Class Commission was appointed to investigate the conditions of socially and educationally backward classes within the territory of India‚ which Commission is popularly known as Mandal Commission. The terms of reference of the Commission were: "The terms of reference of the Commission were:-- (i) to determine the criteria for
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Backward Classes Commission Reports in Karnataka: A Critical Review of Criteria‚ Recommendations and Judgements Sharada S. Avantika Gode Abstract: This paper maps the trajectory of recommendations made by commissions set up for the improvement of the status of the Backward Classes in Karnataka. Starting with the Leslie Miller Committee Report in 1919‚ the paper analyses the criteria considered to determine backwardness‚ and critically juxtaposes the recommendations in the socio-cultural context
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RESERVATIONS: BANE OR BOON? Ever since the acceptance of ‘Mandal Commission Report’ by the Central government‚ the entire issue of reservations has come under close scrutiny of those who have remained reticent on this sensitive subject all these years‚ for reasons best known to them. The vociferous voices for and against the ‘policy of reservation’ are being raised by different sections of Indian society‚ for they fear class-war‚ caste-war and civil war if their respective view-points and stands
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Right to Equality in India Vis-à-Vis Reservation in favor of Backward Classes Nisshtha Ghai BBA-LLB Present Day Scenario Original Story: The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house & laying up supplies for the winter. The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is a fool & laughs dances plays the summer away. Come winter‚ the Ant is warm & well fed. The Grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold. Indian Version: The Ant works hard in the withering
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MODULE - 5 Political Science Major Contemporary Issues 22 Notes COMMUNALISM‚ CASTE AND RESERVATIONS In a democratic system‚ it is quite common that people use different methods for expressing solidarity and achieving political power. In a country like India‚ politics has been dominated by promoting communalism and castism. The social diversities and disparities in our country are understood in terms of the existence of many groups linked to a caste or religion. Tensions have
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utility or uselessness for contemporary society. K. S. Chalam’s present book is an attempt to recollect the arguments for reservations‚ remove some of the misconceptions that gained currency since the V. P. Singh government’s move to introduce the Mandal Commission recommendations‚ and also to look at the notion of reservations in a post-liberalised‚ open economy. The methodology of the book: It is primarily a socio-political analysis of the caste based reservations in the present time. Caste-Based Reservations
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Introduction I would start my paper by pointing out the historical reasons for giving reservation. The reservation policy in India is nothing new‚ as it had existed in our society from the time of the British rule and the princely states. The motive of having reservation then was the eagerness to modernise through the promotion of education and industry and maintaining unity among themselves. Reservation continued in India even after having achieved independence from the British. But there is an
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provisions regarding reservations which explicitly single out certain castes for special preferential treatment contradicts the documents prohibition on discrimination based on caste‚ race and other such other criteria. Besides‚ despite the creation of commissions to monitor the implementation of reservation policy by the centre the constitution gives great liberties to the individual states to determine the quantity and limits of reservation which often lead to exploitation. In reality there is no abolishment
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who us tically Background The issue of reservation cropped up soon after our independence and a committee under Mr. Keleekar was appointed the recommendations of the committee were rejected on the basis of their impracticality. Again Mandal Commission was constituted which submitted it report in 1980. The report was gathering dust in the office for almost a decade until V.P. Singh govt. decided to implement it in 1992. As per the recommendations‚ 27% of the seats were to be reserved for OBC’S
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Reservation in India is a form of affirmative action designed to improve the well-being of perceived backward and under-represented communities defined primarily by their ’caste ’ (quota-system based on ’gender ’ or ’religion ’) is a phenomenon that commenced with the coming into force of the Indian Constitution (the Constitution initially provided reservation to Christians‚ with the proviso that it wouldautomatically reduce gradually with the efflux of time) – however‚ lately preferential treatment on
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