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India’s Constitution Amendment Bill for 10 per cent Quota for Economically Weaker Sections and its Realities
J. Cyril Kanmony
Article Number - 604F4882A55A0 | Vol. 2(1), pp. 1-7., March 2021 |
Received: 19 January 2021 | Accepted: 3 March 2021 | Published: 31 March 2021
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Abstract
The Constitution Amendment Bill
introduced in the Indian parliament in January 2019 guarantees 10% quota for
the economically weaker sections. There is already a constitutional provision
of quota not exceeding 50% for the low caste people to set right their century
old discrimination. Even though this reservation system has been in existence
for the past 70 years the low caste people are not on the path of full-fledged
development. Their economic condition is still worse than that of upper caste
people. Their representation in high-graded posts such as judges, managerial
executives, professors and high administrative officers is very low against a
high representation in low-graded posts like class ‘D’ jobs. On the other hand,
upper caste people are good in number in all such high-graded posts. In this
background, a separate quota for high caste people on the basis of their
economic background is not necessary as it will not help in any way the country
in attaining a higher rate of economic growth. Keywords: Economically weaker sections, Economically
backward, Untouchable, Unapproachable, Low caste.
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Authors
J. Cyril
Kanmony
PG & Research Centre, Department of Economics, Scott Christian
College (Autonomous), Nagercoil, India.Â
Email: [email protected]
How to Cite this Article
Kanmony, J. C. (2021).
India’s Constitution Amendment Bill for 10% Quota for Economically Weaker
Sections and its Realities. Journal of Economics, Business Management and
Administration, 2(1): 1-7.
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