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The EWS judgment and the shadow of Pandora

  • Published
    10th Nov, 2022

Context:

The idea behind the Supreme Court judgment of 2015 (inclusion of Jats in the Central list of OBCs, got ignored in the current debate of reservation to Economically Weaker Sections.

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  • Rationale Provided in 2015 judgment: The state should not go by the “perception of the self-proclaimed socially backward class”; new formulae, must be found to determine backwardness.
  • Emerging forms of backwardness: New practices, methods, and yardsticks have to be continuously evolved moving away from the caste-centric definition of backwardness.

Call for new methods and yardsticks:

  • Need for New Methods: Caste may be a factor for ‘determination of backwardness’, but “the identification of a group as backward solely based on caste must be discouraged.
  • No change in the basis for Reservation: The addition of the OBC category did not change the basis on which they benefited. Despite the “C” in “OBC” referring to “classes”, the OBC lists contained castes and sub-castes.
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