10-16-2006, 08:39 PM
Mudy
Here I go again like a broken record.
I think BJP must push for removal of "Open Quota". A good quota system must allocate quota for all people of all jaatis, janjaatis etc. A proper surveying methodology needs to be devised where such confusion doesnt happen. NSSOs funding needs to be increased or a separate department needs to be setup whose sole purpose is to come up with a report every year (or maybe every 5 years) that lists the population by jaati-varna-sex etc..
I think I had forgotten about a very important recommendation from the FIRST BACKWARD CLASS COMMISSION. One of the most significant recommendation was to consider ALL women as backward. Hence I propose that all public and private sector institutions have 50% quota reserved for women starting with the parliament.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_Backward_Classes
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->First Backward Classes commission
The First Backward Classes Commission was set up by a presidential order on January 29, 1953 under the chairmanship of Kaka Kalelkar. The commission submitted its report on March 30, 1955. It had prepared a list of 2,399 backward castes or communities for the entire country and of which 837 had been classified as the "most backward". Some of the most notable recommendations of the commission were:
 1. Undertaking caste-wise enumeration of population in the census of 1961;
 2. Relating social backwardness of a class to its low position in the traditional caste hierarchy of Indian society;
<b>Â 3. Treating all women as a class as "backward";</b>
 4. Reservation of 70 per cent seats in all technical and professional institutions for qualified students of backward classes.
 5. Reservation of vacancies in all government services and local bodies for other backward classes.
The commission in its final report recommended "caste as the criteria" to determine backwardness. But this report was not accepted by the government as it feared that the backward classes excluded from the caste and communities selected by the commission may not be considered and the really needy would be swamped by the multitude and would hardly receive special attention.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Here I go again like a broken record.
I think BJP must push for removal of "Open Quota". A good quota system must allocate quota for all people of all jaatis, janjaatis etc. A proper surveying methodology needs to be devised where such confusion doesnt happen. NSSOs funding needs to be increased or a separate department needs to be setup whose sole purpose is to come up with a report every year (or maybe every 5 years) that lists the population by jaati-varna-sex etc..
I think I had forgotten about a very important recommendation from the FIRST BACKWARD CLASS COMMISSION. One of the most significant recommendation was to consider ALL women as backward. Hence I propose that all public and private sector institutions have 50% quota reserved for women starting with the parliament.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_Backward_Classes
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->First Backward Classes commission
The First Backward Classes Commission was set up by a presidential order on January 29, 1953 under the chairmanship of Kaka Kalelkar. The commission submitted its report on March 30, 1955. It had prepared a list of 2,399 backward castes or communities for the entire country and of which 837 had been classified as the "most backward". Some of the most notable recommendations of the commission were:
 1. Undertaking caste-wise enumeration of population in the census of 1961;
 2. Relating social backwardness of a class to its low position in the traditional caste hierarchy of Indian society;
<b>Â 3. Treating all women as a class as "backward";</b>
 4. Reservation of 70 per cent seats in all technical and professional institutions for qualified students of backward classes.
 5. Reservation of vacancies in all government services and local bodies for other backward classes.
The commission in its final report recommended "caste as the criteria" to determine backwardness. But this report was not accepted by the government as it feared that the backward classes excluded from the caste and communities selected by the commission may not be considered and the really needy would be swamped by the multitude and would hardly receive special attention.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->