Option two: Reservations for low income (low wealth). This way only poor people benefit from reservations. It will be difficult to argue that poor people of all classes are not equally deserving. After all, this is a principle which is already accepted in Option One.
The difference between the two is not expected to be significant, except the caste factor will be blunted in the second case. It may be also a clear cut way of introducing reservations for Muslims.
Instead what we have is a bloody mess involving various communities fighting amongst themselves to prove how backward and how deserving they are. This only sharpens the caste factor and amplifies grievance and puts people in various (permanent) boxes. For greedy, grubby politicians- what is not to like?
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Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a plea to stay Centre’s poll-eve
notification to include the Jat community in the OBC list for providing
the benefits of reservation, saying there are prima facie material for
taking the decision.
Senior advocate K K Venugopal, appearing for OBC Reservation Raksha
Samiti — an organisation of members of communities which are included in
the central list of Backward Classes, alleged that the March 4
notification was issued a day before the model code of conduct (MCC)
came into force and it was done by the party in power to garner votes.
However, the bench said it cannot come in the way of the government taking a decision a day before the MCC came into force. “Government is a government. We can’t say, you can’t do. Till one day
before (the MCC), they can take a decision,” the bench said.
Venugopal submitted the party in power took the decision for private gain.
On April 1, the apex court had asked the Centre why it allegedly
ignored the advice of the National Commission for Backward Classes
(NCBC) to keep the Jat community away from reservation benefits.
The court had also said that “the matter is serious” and had directed
the ministry of social justice and empowerment to place before it all
the material, records and files pertaining to the decision, to see
“whether there was application of mind or not” while issuing the March 4
notification.
The notification included Jat community in OBC
list in Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh,
Delhi, Rajasthan (two districts of Bharatpur and Dholpur), Uttar
Pradesh, and Uttarakhand.
OBC Reservation Raksha Samiti in its
plea had contended that as a result of the notification, Jats will be
like a “creamy layer” in the OBC list and will take away the seats and
posts in schools, colleges and government jobs from other community.
The petitioners,
referring to several empirical studies and survey, have contended that
Jat community being a socially forward caste will consume substantive
portion of the quota of OBC reservation which will deprive the deserving
people of other backward classes of the benefit of reservation.
They submitted that people of Jat community have performed much better
than those of other castes and the number of those who have been
selected in the prestigious civil services exam of UPSC is much higher
than the number proportionate to their population.
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