Reservation Policy in India

  • Deeksha Sharma, University of Jammu
  • September 25, 2020

Content :

This article focuses on the reservation policy in India. Tracing history of evolution of reservation policy and presenting supportive constitutional provisions. The article focuses in detail on dynamics of reservation in public service for SC, ST and OBC. The goal of reservation in India has been to bring about improvement in the welfare who, historically, have been economically and socially depressed. Judicial viewpoints in the appointment of SC & ST in various jobs in public and private sector have been discussed. In this Article, we shall discuss the provisions available in the Constitution of India, based on which orders relating to reservations in services for Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and other Backward Classes (OBCs) have been issued. The provisions made in the Articles 16, 335, 338, 340, 341 & 342 of the Constitution relate to reservation, protection and safeguards, in public employment in respect of the persons belonging to the SCs/STs and other backward classes. The article highlights various issues that hoe people of various classes discriminated on the basis of reservation.