The Social ION
Year : 2012, Volume : 1, Issue : 1and2
First page : ( 168) Last page : ( 174)
Print ISSN : 2319-3581. Online ISSN : 2456-7523.

Review of reservation in higher education in India

Dr. Bhartiya Anoop Kumar

Deptt. of Social Work, University of Lucknow, U.P, India, Email: bhartiya.ak@gmail.com

Online published on 13 March, 2018.

Abstract

The group-based reservation policies that are currently being proposed for Other Backward Castes in higher education have their rationale in three basic premises. The first is that the groups concerned are socially disadvantaged relative to other unreserved groups in the population. Second, that disadvantage is most effectively addressed by directing benefits towards groups rather than directly to disadvantaged individuals and households. historical, and perhaps the contemporary, position of groups that are now classified as the backward classes. There are some recent surveys that contain data on both caste and household demographics and allow some comparisons of OBC‟s with other groups. The 55^th round of the National Sample Survey administered in 1999–2000 collected self-reported caste data on OBC‟s and the post-election surveys that are regularly conducted by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) include data on jattis that can be aggregated to arrive at averages for the OBC‟s and other categories. Satish Deshpande finds, based on the NSS data, that OBC‟s as a group lie somewhere between the Scheduled Castes and Tribes and the unreserved Hindu castes in terms of average years of schooling. Present paper focuses that the ill effects of reservation in higher education has forced students to spend more years (an increasing by, large resources) in acquiring so sort of post graduation professional qualification.

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Keywords

Reservation, population, CSDS, group, higher education ill effect of reservation.

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