Thursday, July 16, 2009

Reservation in India

Reservation in Indian law is a form of affirmative action whereby a percentage of seats are reserved in the public sector units, union and state civil services, union and state government departments and in all public and private educational institutions, except in the religious/ linguistic minority educational institutions, 

The reservation policy is also extended for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes for representation in the Parliament of India. The underlying theory is that the under-representation of the identifiable groups is a legacy of the Indian caste system.

Reservations are intended to increase the social diversity in campuses and workplaces by lowering the entry criteria for certain identifiable private educational institutions, private educational institutions, under-represented in proportion to their numbers in the general population groups. 

Reservation for the socially and educationally backward communities and the Scheduled Castes and Tribes who are inadequately private educational institutions, represented in these services private educational institutions, and institutions. Caste is the most used criteria to identify under-represented groups. 

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