Wednesday, 7 April 2021

Dalits and their reservations

 


Communal award:
The Communal Award of 1931 by Ramsay MacDonald leads to reservations in seats for depressed classes or untouchables i.e. scavenger ethnicities of India.

The Communal Award was made by the British prime minister Ramsay MacDonald on 16 August 1932 granting separate electorates in India for the Forward Caste, Muslims, Buddhists, Sikhs, Indian Christians, Anglo-Indians, Europeans and Depressed Classes etc. The principle of weightage was also applied.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communal_Award

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservation_in_India


Reservation & related Benefits for dalits: 

1. Educational Reservation: Reservation of a Minimum no. of seats as quota in educational seats in colleges and in employment in government jobs and public sector jobs for dalits i.e. scavenger ethnicities.
2. Political reservations: Reserved MLA & MP constituencies for SCs & STs.
3. Employment reservation : Lowered cut-off  for Selection in government employment and all education seats.
4. Separate rank lists in engineering entrance results and IIT and all entrance examination results
5. Reservation in Promotion & Appointment,
6. Fee waiver, or Fee discount,
7. Fee Reimbursement,
8. Caste Scholarship,
9. DICCI: to encourage dalit startup entrepreneurship
10. SC Welfare fund
11. SC Welfare government hostels

Advantages of reservations for dalits: 

If there is no reservation the Dalits will forever remain subaltern.

With reservation SCs can jump tens of thousands of ranks in the merit list for seats in engineering and medicine entrance examinations.

They are given, with government money, Special training before and after conducting competitive exams and also before actual course of study in case they fail to make the grade.
SC presence in government has increased a lot due to reservation.
SCs are studying at higher levels than other OCs, this is because they get scholarship, fee refund, and priority selections and priority promotions.
 More the degrees, more the scholarships. That's why SCs study upto Ph.D. level.

Dalits are Highly pampered races of india due to reservation.
Reservation results in sub standard students and sub standard employees being selected and they are informally and popularly known as reservation stuff.
Dalits are effectively a serious burden on state exchequer in the form of various truly unworthy reservation benefits.

https://swarajyamag.com/ideas/the-hypocrisy-behind-the-dalit-christian-demand-for-caste-reservation-benefits

For, ‘caste discrimination’ is valid only if there is a ‘caste’. Conversion to Christianity is done to escape caste, on the promise of ‘equality before Christ’. Hence, the demand appears invalid, malafide.

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