2. Reservations in higher education.

Reservation in India

• 1 Purpose
• 2 Types of Reservation
  • 2.1 Caste
  • 2.2 Religion
  • 2.3 State of Domicile
  • 2.4 College of Undergraduation
  • 2.5 Other
• 3 Relaxations
• 4 History of the practice
• 5 Caste Based Reservations in Tamil Nadu
  • 5.1 Timeline
• 6 Reservations and Judiciary
• 7 Recent developments
• 8 Population data
• 9 Arguments
  • 9.1 Arguments offered by supporters of reservation
  • 9.2 Arguments offered by anti-reservationists
  • 9.3 Other notable suggestions

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The Benefits and costs of Affirmative action in higher education lessons from the United States and India

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Education in India

• 1 Structure
  • 1.1 Preprimary Education
  • 1.2 Elementary Education
  • 1.3 Non-graduation market
  • 1.4 Higher Education
    • 1.4.1 Accreditation
  • 1.5 Graduation market
• 2 History
  • 2.1 Up to the 17th century
  • 2.2 Education under British Rule
  • 2.3 After Independence
  • 2.4 Education Commission
  • 2.5 After 1976
  • 2.6 Recent developments
• 3 Outdoor Education in India
• 4 Expenditure on Education in India
• 5 Initiatives
  • 5.1 Non-Formal Education
  • 5.2 Bal Bhavans
  • 5.3 Distance education
• 6 Education for special sections of society
  • 6.1 Women
  • 6.2 SC/STs and OBCs
  • 6.3 Post Graduate Classes at Correctional Homes
• 7 Criticism of Indian Education System
• 8 Chronology of main events

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Reservations in higher education

I think it is far better to focus such efforts in primary and secondary education, rather than higher education. Our democracy should try and ensure that each child has the opportunity for a basic education. Reservations should be about equal opportunity, but they should not supercede merit. The work force of the country is not child's play. Anyone wanting to work must demonstrate sufficient merit for the task, irrespective of what caste he/she is from.

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Fight against Reservations in higher education

Why Reservations are not acceptable ?

What is the Reservation process ?

Who should have Reservations ?

Suggestions

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Thomas Weisskopf on the impact of reservation in higher education

The fact that reservation policies in admissions to higher educational institutions tend to benefit a creamy layer of SC and ST students is often taken by critics as prima facie evidence that these policies are failing to achieve their objective. Such an inference would be warranted, however, only if the primary objective of these policies were to improve the distribution of educational opportunities within the SC and ST communities. But reservation policies in higher educational institutions are obviously not the right way to promote such an objective; a much more promising way would be to expand SC and ST access to primary and secondary education and to improve the quality of the schools in which SC and ST students are most likely to enrol.

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Indian reservations

George Bernard Shaw with characteristic cynicism noted that a government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. Regardless of their specific stripes, all Indian governments, because they are “democratically” elected, naturally solve the problem of identifying the Peters and the Pauls by a numbers game: Pauls must outnumber the Peters. So it should come as no surprise that yet another idiotic scheme is hatched by the party in power to gain the support of a large underclass by promising them something that will not in any substantial way be of any use to them but gives the appearance of providing relief.

Allocating quotas and reserving seats for economically backward classes (and for other historically discriminated and disadvantaged groups) in higher educational institutions is economically inefficient, morally wrong, strategically flawed, and tactically ineffective. The policy does not help the underclass and ends up victimizing both the underclass and the so-called privileged class. The policy epitomizes what is called a “lose-lose” solution, while foregoing a “win-win” situation.

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Reservations about Reservations

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OBC Reservations for Higher Education
Letter by MN Buch to Shri Justice K.G. Balakrishnan

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The brief question before the Supreme Court is whether reservation can be made for other backward classes in which caste is the basic factor for determining class. The Supreme Court did observe in the Indira Sawhney Vs. Union of India case in 1990, followed by Ashok Kumar Thakur Vs. Union of India in 1993 that caste could be a determinant of class, though to the best of my knowledge the court did not state that class and caste are interchangeable terms. In this behalf I would commend the meaning of caste as given in the Chambers 21st Century Dictionary. This is what the dictionary has to state “ caste – any of the four hereditary social classes into which Hindu society is divided and which are well entrenched in many areas of Hindu society”. Another meaning given is “ 16th century -- in obsolete general sense breed of men, from Portuguese casta, breed or race, from Latin castus pure”.

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Views on Reservation/Quota In Higher Education Institutes In India

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Other important links

1. Reservation in Higher Education and Jobs- Divide and Rule Strategy

2.Efforts on to convince SC about reservation in higher education: Arjun Singh

3. On Backwardness And Fair Access To Higher Education In India: Some Results From Nss 55th Round Surveys 1999-2000