– by ALAM SRINIVAS
IT is indeed ironical. The job
reservation policies, especially in the government and public sector jobs, has
worked so well that the erstwhile powerful castes, including the upper ones and
traditionally well-to-do ‘other backward classes’ that are not a part of the
quota system, feel threatened. They have fear this would affect their jobs,
incomes, lifestyles and future of their children. Apart from the deep economic
impact, they have concerns about the slow, but sure, erosion of their political
and social powers. The power cycle, which kept the lower and backward castes
out of the system, stands disbanded and is in disarray.
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