50% Reservation is Myth and other reservation related issues

NETHRAPAL IRS
The Pain of Merit
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3 min readAug 25, 2023

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Just 4.39% representation for SC, ST, and OBC at Secretary to Government of India

What is the use of reservation when, even today, only 4.8% representation is there for SC and ST?

4% OBC Professors

Removing Reservation is an impossibility !!!

Representation of SC/ST in Director/JS/AS/Secretary rank under central government staffing scheme

Just 6.9% for SC, 1.5% for ST, 4.1% for OBC in 45 Central Universities at the level of Professors

IITs/IIMs/Central Universities have dismal faculty representation for SC/ST/OBCs…

Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have not yet enforced reservation provisions for admission in research courses and faculty recruitment, despite laws mandating them to do so.

Just 0.4% Adivasi, 4.0% Dalit had funding in research

Harvard vs IIT/IIM Diversity

Why are private sector reservations and reservations for temporary employment the need of the hour?

Let any number of Meena’s take reservation. What is your problem?

Which Party has the highest CMs from OBCs?

IIM’s need to comply with constitutional provisions of reservations

Vacant seats in NEET

What is the OBC Population State wide

40 reasons why Scheduled Caste converts to Christianity and Muslims cannot be included in the Scheduled Caste list! A mind-boggling

Rabindranath Tagore and Casteism

Is Creamy layer really relevant. Just 70 lakhs returns above 10 lakhs income — Data Point

Is it possible to remove some SC castes from SC/ST List?

Can a caste or tribe be removed from the SC/ST list?

Process of making of an SC/ST

The Math of Reservation in Central Universities

19000 SC ST OBC students drop out from IIT, IIM and other Central Universities

The Reasons for Dropouts and Suicides

IITs should create a more accepting environment for SC/ST/OBC.

Reservation as per population कितने अबादी उत्ना आरक्षण

Reservations can not be bypassed in the name of providing Autonomy to IIMs/IITs

Subcategorization within Scheduled Castes is an impossibility !!!

Link Aadhar with reservation

When the absolute number of reserved jobs is coming down, is there any use in talking about reservation%?

Adding castes or tribes that have assimilated into the general population to the Scheduled Tribes list is not possible !!!

National Commission for Scheduled Tribes has specified the criteria for including a community as a scheduled tribe

Lokur Committee Recommendations on inclusion in SC/ST list in 1965

Lingayat Panchmasali were not included in OBC Central List because of this order below

Why Kuruba’s cannot be included in Scheduled Tribes List?

SC representation in states dismal compared to the population of the scheduled castes in the states.

37.6% Brahmins, 9.56% Kshatriya, 13.33% Kayastha, 7.64% Vaishya in IAS

What would have happened if OBC reservation was not introduced as per the Mandal Commission Report?

Which castes had the highest deprivation and less land ownership in Uttar Pradesh?

Which castes are extremely poor in Uttar Pradesh?

Which caste had the lowest wealth in Uttar Pradesh?

Caste composition of various castes in Tamilnadu

Brahmins, with a population of 3.5%, had 19.5% of the total government jobs. Lingayats, with a population of 15.3%, had 20.6% of the total government jobs in Karnataka!

Central Universities have the worst representation for sc/st/obc compared to State Universities and Deemed Universities

Deemed Universities have better representation in SC/ST/OBC than central universities

State Universities have better representation than Central universities in SC/ST/OBC

50.5% students from ST category did not appear for CUET exams

SC, ST, OBC students have dismal representation in private schools

Is there a need for subcategorisation with in General Merit?

JNU has just 3.29% Dalit and 1.44% Adivasi

Just 1.12% for SC, 3.37% for STs and 0% for OBC at Secretary Level

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NETHRAPAL IRS
The Pain of Merit

B-Tech from IIT Madras, PGDM from IIM-Bangalore, Writer, Senior IRS Officer, FM Awardee,Views personal.