Economic Condition of Religious Minorities: Quota or Affirmative Action
The economic plight of minorities, particularly Muslims has been a very disturbing factor for all those who would like the society to strive for equality and justice. If we see…
Reservation
Dalits should be cautious of the divisive policies of BJP-RSS:All India Peoples Front
• Dalits should be cautious of the divisive policies of BJP-RSS • Supreme Court's decision on SC-ST sub-classification is not based on facts - Prof. Thorat • Unity of Dalits…
Supreme Court’s Decision on SC-ST Sub-Classification is Against the Thoughts of Dr. Ambedkar
A meeting of social, political activists and organizations from Uttar Pradesh was organized by the All India Peoples Front (AIPF) at Gandhi Bhavan in Lucknow on 20/10/2024 regarding the Supreme…
Reservation, Creamy Layer and Positive Discrimination
“Despite these seemingly attractive employment opportunities the dismal backwardness in the matter of representation in administration from among the SC/STs was such that the vacancies reserved for them remained, in…
Need for reservation for SCs/STs/OBCs and women at the higher levels of the judiciary
To Smt Droupadi MurmuPresident of IndiaRashtrapati Bhawan Respected Rashtrapati Ji, On the 27th of September, 2021, I made an appeal to your predecessor that there was urgent need to mandate…
Let us understand each other, hug tightly and strengthen our unity : Ish Kumar Gangania
Ish Kumar Gangania is a well-respected author, thinker and editor based in Delhi. He is known for his blunt and to the point responses. Gangania has written extensively on India’s…
Empowering the last person of the most marginalised sections was the dream of Dr Ambedkar
Vidya Bhushan Rawat's conversation with Ambedkarite writer Sanjeev Khudshah on why he supports classification of the scheduled castes for reservation purposes Sanjeev Khudshah was born on 12 February 1973 in…
Empowering Dalits and Adivasis: A Need of the Hour
On August 21, Dalit organizations across the country have called for a Bharat Bandh. This protest is in response to the Supreme Court’s order on August 1, which granted state…
Sub categorization and creamy layer criteria applicable to SC,ST reservation, recognizes grade among Dalit and Adivasies in spite of homogeneity of issues
The Supreme Court judgement on 1st August 2024 by 7 judge constitution bench in a 6:1 majority judgement on state of Punjab v. Davindra Singh allowed states for sub-classification of scheduled…
Arguments of Convenience reflect the hypocrisy of political responses on the SC categorization issue
The Supreme Court Judgement on Sub Classification of Scheduled Caste Reservation has rightly been criticized for transgressing in venturing into areas which actually were not part of petition. Apart from…
Reservation is not a Charity
Reservation has always been an issue of debate in India. The majority of Hindus remain opposed to it without having understood the necessity of Reservation for the socially and economically…
Supreme Court’s ruling on SC & ST sub-categorization is “disappointing”: Dr. Umakant
The recent Supreme Court’s decision favouring sub-categorization within SC reservation is “disappointing,” says Ambedkarite scholar and Dalit rights activist Dr. Umakant in interview conducted by Abhay Kumar in New Delhi…
Parliament, not Judiciary is the Forum to Formulate Social Policy
The nexus between judiciary and Parliament is manifested whenever there is a compromise on the social outcome that benefits both the parties equally. Otherwise, there will be tension both in…
The Evolution of Reservation Policies in India: An Analysis of Recent Judicial Developments and the Legacy of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Background The issue of reservation in India has been a subject of intense debate and scrutiny for decades. Originally introduced to address historical injustices faced by marginalized communities, particularly Scheduled…
Examining the Patna High Court’s Verdict on Bihar’s Caste Reservation Law and the 50% Cap
The Patna High Court’s recent decision to uphold Bihar's caste quota law has reignited a crucial debate about reservation policies in India. This verdict challenges the longstanding 50% reservation limit…
RSS Deceit On Constitutional Reservation
RSS which claims to be the biggest organization of Hindus in the world is, in fact, a unique organization which trains its cadres in manufacturing and spreading lies in the…
‘Dereservation’ -Whether the genie is out of the bottle finally
UGC led by Chairman Jagdeesh Kumar refuses to remain beyond controversy for long time. The latest being its draft proposal of 'dereservation' of seats if not a suitable candidate from…
Shrinking public sector- Need for affirmative action in the private sector
To Smt Droupadi Murmu President of India Rashtrapati Bhawan Respected Rashtrapati Ji, In June this year, while addressing a gathering in the UK, Justice Shri D Y Chandrachud, the present Chief Justice…
Reservation is not a poverty alleviation program but a weapon of social justice
A lot has been written on the split decision of the Constitution Bench of the Hon'ble Supreme Court upholding reservation for economically weaker sections, need not be repeated. Only one…
Did you get your job through reservation?
In the viral video of a court session from Nov 23, 2022, Justice Sandeep Kumar of Patna High Court is heard asking a suspended Land Acquisition Officer of the Bihar…
Upholding of EWS by SC strikes at Basic Structure of Constitution
The PUCL is concerned that the decision of the Supreme Court in `Janhit Abhiyan v Union of India’ upholding the constitutionality of reservations for `Economically Weaker Sections’ (EWS) does…
Reservations on Reservation
While not entirely unexpected, the SC verdict on reservation for economically weaker sections has caused dismay and disappointment among those already enjoying reservation.It is not envy of the newly reserved…
SC Verdict on EWS: A Paradigm Shift in Reservation and a Strategic Manuvadi Leap Towards Hindurashtra
Supreme Court’s split verdict on EWS that upholds the 103rd Constitutional Amendment Act of January 2019 brought out by Modi government providing 10% economic reservation to the economically backward upper…
Apex Court Nod for EWS Reservation: A Measure of Preferential Treatment?
The 3:2 majority judgement of the Supreme Court on 7 November 2022 giving the go-ahead for the 103rd Constitutional Amendment envisaging 10 per cent reservation for the Economically Weaker Sections…
Reservations on reservation policy
Few recall these days the furore on the Mandal Commission report.At that time I found to my dismay even some progressive academics at the Delhi University campus wavering on the…
An agenda for debate on Scheduled Castes and reservations
In an editorial dated 01 Sep 2022 the New Indian Express has raised an important issue about the final aim of reservation - whether to remove social and educational backwardness…
The quota rants and its impact on marginal students
The apex court delivered a judgement on 20th January 2022 authored by Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and Justice A.S. Bopanna about extending reservation to OBCs in all-India quota (AIQ) of seats…
A routine wrong & 2 Constitutional amendments
The States are primarily responsible for the welfare of the residents in their limits. The 105th Constitution Amendment that has been notified on August 19, 2021 aims at giving States…
Conspicuous silence of political parties on OBC reservation issues in the North
June 25th, 2021 marked 90th birth anniversary of former Prime Minister V P Singh but went unnoticed for the majority of the leaders who benefitted from his politics and good…
Backward ClassReservation after Supreme Court judgement on Maratha case: who is to gain or lose?
On May 5 Supreme Court quashed Maharashtra State Reservation for Socially and Educationally Backward Classes Act (SEBC Act) of 2018, providing reservation to Maratha community in public services and educational…
The IITs, Scheduled Category reservation and the strategic excuse of excellence
A Ministry of Education (MoE) panel has recommended that the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) should be exempted from caste-based reservations in faculty appointments[1]. Out of the many categories of…
Start terming Reservation as Representation
Nomenclatures can be misguiding and result in a new line of thought being sown in the masses. One such term which is frequently used and misunderstood the most is ‘Reservation’…
The Privileges Of A “Quota” Student Who Is “Not Poor”
It is the time for entrance examinations in India. While I was preparing for an entrance, a good friend of mine, made a remark which affected me deeply, prompting me…
70 Years Of Constitutional Rights Denied To 20 Millions Indian Dalit Christians
“Commission for Minority Religion and Linguistic Minority” known as “Misra Commission” was setup by United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government in 2005 to study and report on socio-economic condition of Christians…
Dalit Christians and Dalit Muslims await justice: 70 Years of Discrimination based on Religion
Dalit Christians and Dalit Muslims observe August 10th across the country as a day to highlight and protest the denial of the fundamental constitutional rights to them for the last…
Are Central Universities Modern-Day Agraharams?
Will we ever know the category-wise distribution of vice chancellors of the forty central universities located across the country? Thanks to the rules governing these universities, and those of the…
The Economics of Reservation and the Dysfunctional Question of Representation: Contextualizing the Exclusion of OBC’s
Overlooking the partial move, the rubber stamp institution of National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) gave its nod for the central government's appointed B. P. Sharma committee recommendations for incorporating…
10 Percent EWS Reservation And The Unreserved Shudras
After the central Government has reserved 10 percent seats to the castes of general category the Andhra Pradesh Government brought out a GO allocating 5 percent of the seats and…
Quotas in Promotion
Co-Written by Snehil Kunwar Singh & Bhaskar Kumar In a latest move, the Supreme Court (SC) has agreed to revisit the issue of Quotas in promotion which it held not…
O.B.Cs And Social Discrimination In India
The worst sufferers of social discrimination in today's India are the Other Backward Castes (O.B.C.) This is because, after the exit of the British, instead of equal opportunities, their share,…
Reversing Affirmative Action For Upper Caste Elitism: Usage Of Social Media By Anti Reservation Communities
In Social Media one regularly comes across shared postings with originations from communities such as Índia against Reservation’, Índia against Caste based reservations’, Índia against Caste and Reservation’. The logic…
Tributes To B.P Mandal: The Crusader Of OBCs On His 98th Birth Anniversary
Bindheshwari Prasad Mandal (1918–1982) was an Indian parliamentarian, social reformer of the country who served as the chairman of the Second Backward Classes Commission, popularly known as the Mandal Commission. The…
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