#Exclusion
#affirmative_action
#Social_mobility
Economic criterion alone cannot be used to classify a member of a Backward Class-Supreme Court
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/income-and-quotas-the-hindu-editorial-on-creamy-layer-and-economic-criterion/article36106349.ece
#affirmative_action
#Social_mobility
Economic criterion alone cannot be used to classify a member of a Backward Class-Supreme Court
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/income-and-quotas-the-hindu-editorial-on-creamy-layer-and-economic-criterion/article36106349.ece
The Hindu
Income and quotas: On creamy layer
Supreme Court lays bare the limits of using economic criterion to determine reservation eligibility
#Caste_System
#affirmative_action
Revitalising India’s reservation system
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-key-to-revitalising-indias-reservation-system/article36310802.ece
#affirmative_action
Revitalising India’s reservation system
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-key-to-revitalising-indias-reservation-system/article36310802.ece
The Hindu
The key to revitalising India’s reservation system
A socio-economic caste-based census becomes a necessary precondition to initiate any meaningful reform
#Caste_System
#affirmative_action
Politics and public policy is being reduced to jati-based mobilisation
https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/brahmin-welfare-schemes-social-justice-7495186/ The little farce of Brahmin welfare schemes is a sign of India’s great tragedy
#affirmative_action
Politics and public policy is being reduced to jati-based mobilisation
https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/brahmin-welfare-schemes-social-justice-7495186/ The little farce of Brahmin welfare schemes is a sign of India’s great tragedy
The Indian Express
The little farce of Brahmin welfare schemes is a sign of India’s great tragedy
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: It reflects a nation with diminishing prospects for everyone, encouraging them to reach into the narrowest-minded conceptions of identity and calling it social justice.
#caste_system
#inequality
#affirmative_action
Reservations: A Project of Nation-building
https://www.epw.in/journal/2021/45-46/alternative-standpoint/reservations-%E2%80%8B-project-nation-building.html
#inequality
#affirmative_action
Reservations: A Project of Nation-building
https://www.epw.in/journal/2021/45-46/alternative-standpoint/reservations-%E2%80%8B-project-nation-building.html
Economic and Political Weekly
Reservations: A Project of Nation-building
The history of reservations in India shows that it was an outcome of a long process of struggle to gain recognition and representation for the minorities, especially Dalits. It also shows that the
#caste_system
#affirmative_action
Data will help us determine who needs and does not need affirmative action and the effectiveness of such a measure
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-importance-of-a-caste-census/article65051965.ece
#affirmative_action
Data will help us determine who needs and does not need affirmative action and the effectiveness of such a measure
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-importance-of-a-caste-census/article65051965.ece
The Hindu
The importance of caste data
Data will help us determine who needs and does not need affirmative action and the effectiveness of such a measure
#gender_inequality
#Works_and_Economic_Life
#affirmative_action
The Elusiveness of Gender Equality/Gender Justice
https://www.epw.in/journal/2022/31/comment/elusiveness-gender-equalitygender-justice.html
#Works_and_Economic_Life
#affirmative_action
The Elusiveness of Gender Equality/Gender Justice
https://www.epw.in/journal/2022/31/comment/elusiveness-gender-equalitygender-justice.html
Economic and Political Weekly
The Elusiveness of Gender Equality/Gender Justice
Transformative affirmation of gender equality ipso facto rules out “economic man” as a privileged entity.
#inequality_exclusion
#welfare_schemes
#affirmative_action
The new Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) Quota: The changing idea of affirmative action
https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/the-new-economically-weaker-sections-ews-quota/?amp
#welfare_schemes
#affirmative_action
The new Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) Quota: The changing idea of affirmative action
https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/the-new-economically-weaker-sections-ews-quota/?amp
ORF
The new Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) Quota: The changing idea of affirmative action
The five-member bench of the Supreme Court recently upheld the EWS quota law as constitutionally valid in a majority judgement
#Urban_poor
#affirmative_action
#welfare_schemes
Affordable Urban Public Housing(PMAY)
* A staggering 78 million individuals reside in substandard housing conditions
https://www.businessworld.in/article/Affordable-Urban-Public-Housing-/30-03-2023-471085
#affirmative_action
#welfare_schemes
Affordable Urban Public Housing(PMAY)
* A staggering 78 million individuals reside in substandard housing conditions
https://www.businessworld.in/article/Affordable-Urban-Public-Housing-/30-03-2023-471085
BW Businessworld
Affordable Urban Public Housing
Dr Bibek Debroy , Dr Amit Kapoor, Aditya Sinha - By reflecting on this poignant narrative, we are called to critically examine the Indian government's role and responsibility in ensuring decent living conditions for its citizens, emphasising the urgent need…
#Stratification_and_mobility
#sexual_minorities
#affirmative_action
Why Trans People Are Demanding Horizontal Reservation Across Castes
https://www.thequint.com/explainers/trans-people-fight-for-horizontal-reservations-across-castes
#sexual_minorities
#affirmative_action
Why Trans People Are Demanding Horizontal Reservation Across Castes
https://www.thequint.com/explainers/trans-people-fight-for-horizontal-reservations-across-castes
TheQuint
Explained: Why Trans People Are Demanding Horizontal Reservation Across Castes
How exactly does horizontal reservation work? What is the legal battle surrounding it? We explain.
#BR_Ambedkar
#Caste_system_in_India
#affirmative_action
Why proposed reservations for Dalit Muslims, Christians have sharply divided Ambedkarites
https://scroll.in/article/1053263/why-reservations-for-dalit-muslims-christians-have-sharply-divided-ambedkarites
#Caste_system_in_India
#affirmative_action
Why proposed reservations for Dalit Muslims, Christians have sharply divided Ambedkarites
https://scroll.in/article/1053263/why-reservations-for-dalit-muslims-christians-have-sharply-divided-ambedkarites
Scroll.in
Why proposed reservations for Dalit Muslims, Christians have sharply divided Ambedkarites
Some Ambedkarites argue against Scheduled Caste status for Christian and Muslim Dalits as they converted to egalitarian religions with no caste system.
#Caste_system_in_India
#affirmative_action
Caste vs Race: Why India’s experience of affirmative action has lasted longer than America’s
https://indianexpress.com/article/research/caste-vs-race-why-indias-experience-of-affirmative-action-has-lasted-longer-than-americas-8865967/
#affirmative_action
Caste vs Race: Why India’s experience of affirmative action has lasted longer than America’s
https://indianexpress.com/article/research/caste-vs-race-why-indias-experience-of-affirmative-action-has-lasted-longer-than-americas-8865967/
The Indian Express
Caste vs Race: Why India’s experience of affirmative action has lasted longer than America’s
Affirmative Action in America and India emerged out of similar circumstances and was introduced without much public opposition. However, in America it has frequently come under attack culminating in the recent Supreme Court verdict that struck down affirmative…
#Caste_system_in_India
#affirmative_action
#identity_politics
Time to end reservations
https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/reservations-caste-census-india-coalition-9061631/
#affirmative_action
#identity_politics
Time to end reservations
https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/reservations-caste-census-india-coalition-9061631/
The Indian Express
Tavleen Singh writes: Time to end reservations
Among the benefits that accrue is that you can claim vast tracts of valuable public land for this supposedly charitable activity. The whole system is corrupt, outdated and evil, and the people who barely benefit because of it are those deprived and discriminated…
#caste_system_in_India
#affirmative_action
A critical view of the sub-classification of Scheduled Castes
https://www.thenewsminute.com/voices/a-critical-view-of-the-sub-classification-of-scheduled-castes
#affirmative_action
A critical view of the sub-classification of Scheduled Castes
https://www.thenewsminute.com/voices/a-critical-view-of-the-sub-classification-of-scheduled-castes
The News Minute
A critical view of the sub-classification of Scheduled Castes
In early February, a Constitutional Bench comprising seven judges heard the matter on the permissibility of sub-classification among Scheduled Castes (SC) and S