10% Reservation : The Largest Scam on General Category Indians


Bloomberg Quint
By Shivam Shankar Singh
January 26, 2019


The BJP government under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi introduced a bill to give 10% reservation to the economically poor that fall within the General category. This group had not received any reservation benefits until now, but would become eligible for reservation with the passage of the bill in both houses of Parliament on 9 January 2019.

As soon as it was introduced, it was hailed by BJP supporters as a major reform in introducing economic justice into a system that had previously depended on social backwardness (defined by caste) to determine people’s eligibility for reservation. Even the opposition supported the bill, restricting its criticism to the specific criteria laid down to determine economic backwardness, to the fact that there aren’t enough new jobs being created, or to the fact that it could be struck down by the Supreme Court and was only a political gimmick. All three are valid criticisms, but they miss a much larger, fatal flaw in this new reservation.

The Fatal Flaw
The eligibility criteria selected  –  an income less than Rs 8 lakh per annum, less than 5 acres of agricultural land and a residential plot below a certain area – made over 80% of the general category population eligible for the reservation, making it useless in effect. Since the economically poor segment identified under this criteria already has a representation of over 10% in educational institutions and government jobs, there would be no logical reason for the cutoff of this reserved category to be any different from the cutoff for the general category itself.

The bench categorically ruled that backward classes cannot be determined exclusively on the basis of economic criterion, and that economic factors could only be used in addition to social backwardness.

More importantly, the judgment also limited the maximum possible reserved seats to 50 percent. If this new 10% reservation is enacted, it would violate that limit and take the total number of reserved seats to 59.5 percent.

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