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Unpacking Dynamics of Reservation Policy: How Caste Shapes Campuses for EWS Students

by rti_adminon February 16, 2025February 16, 2025Leave a Comment6

Sham Lal Caste remains a deeply entrenched social hierarchy in India, significantly influencing access to social goods and services, including education. Historically, the caste system excluded Dalits and marginalized communities from educational opportunities due to cultural traditions, religious restrictions, and societal norms. While the reservation policy was introduced to address disparities and promote the inclusion …

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The Realities of Higher Educational Institutions for Dalit Students

by rti_adminon August 3, 2021March 20, 20231

Sagar Kumbhare “May be I was wrong, all the while, in understanding world. In understanding love, pain, life, death. There was no urgency. But I always was rushing. Desperate to start a life. All the while, some people, for them, life itself is curse. My birth is my fatal accident. I can never recover from …

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Affirmative Action & The Concept of Merit: An Indian Experience

by rti_adminon April 7, 2017March 20, 20230

Raju Chalwadi Affirmative action and Merit are two concepts on which every Indian has an opinion, especially, the former. Affirmative action policy is always seen in a negative light because of the ambiguity regarding the rationale for such a policy and its effect on social relations. And the term merit in the Indian context …

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Havells’ Ad: Another instance of Stereotyping of Reservations Policy in Media

by rti_adminon March 29, 2016March 20, 20230

Amar Khade The offensive Havells Fan television commerical has been removed from Youtube and the company’s Facebook page, and also apparently from television, thanks to the vociferous opposition expressed by Ambedkarites and others. Congratulations friends! But the structures of prejudice that gave birth to it need to be constantly critiqued, as this article does …

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Some merit to quotas

by rti_adminon March 21, 2012March 20, 20230

Dr. Udit Raj (First published in January 2006) The doctors clamouring against reservations for OBCs have demanded that merit be the sole criteria for admission to medical and engineering colleges. Then, how is it that they haven’t objected either to the NRI quota or candidates who procure admission on the basis of capitation fee? Does …

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The private sector’s turn to deliver

by rti_adminon November 29, 2011March 20, 20230

Sukhadeo Thorat The government’s decision to set aside a 20 per cent quota for SC/ST vendors in its purchases, if accepted by every sector on a wider scale, has the potential to make growth pro-poor and inclusive. The Central government has finally announced a policy reserving 20 per cent of its purchases for micro and …

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Quota for SCs in private sector demanded

by rti_adminon October 22, 2010March 20, 20230

HYDERABAD: The National Commission for Scheduled Caste (NCSC) will pursue the long-pending issue of providing reservation to SCs in private sector with the Centre, commission chairman P L Punia said on Wednesday.

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Women and PR

by rti_adminon October 13, 2010March 20, 20230

Gail Omvedt PR, acronym for proportional representation, is new to the majority of Indian feminists – but one that deserves thinking about, now that another session of the Lok Sabha has ended without any significant change on the issue of quota for women. As an editorial in a Women’s Studies network bulletin put out by …