GS Paper 2
Syllabus: Mechanisms, Laws, Institutions and Bodies constituted for the Protection and Betterment of these Vulnerable Sections
Source: TH
Context: The Karnataka government’s recent decisions on the reservation have come under intense political debate.
| Decisions | Need | Criticism |
| ● Did away with the 4% reservation for Muslims in the OBC category.
● This 4% is to be distributed equally among the Veerashaiva-Lingayats and Vokkaligas – the 2 dominant land-owning communities in the State. ● Accorded internal reservation for 101 Scheduled Castes (SC). |
● The OBC reservation quota cannot be extended based on religion
● The community no longer remains socially and educationally backward
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● Vote-bank politics
● The Muslims were included based on the recommendations by the Sachar Committee, L.G. Havanur and Chinnappa Reddy Commissions. ● Any addition or deletion of a community from the reservation matrix should be based on an empirical study by the Karnataka BC Commission. |
Reservation to religious minorities:
- At present, there is no reservation in Civil Posts and Services under the GoI and admission to Central Educational Institutions for Minority Communities.
- However, the Central Government carved out a sub-quota of 5% for minorities, as defined under the National Commission for Minorities Act 1992.
- This will be within the 27% reservation for OBCs in Civil Posts and Services under the GoI and admission to Central Educational Institutions.
- The constitutional validity of the matter is presently sub-judice in the SC.
Insta Links:
The key to revitalising India’s reservation system
Mains Links:
Whether the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) can enforce the implementation of constitutional reservation for the Scheduled Castes in the religious minority institutions? Examine. (UPSC 2018)
