Browsing by Subject "reservation"

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Backward class and politics of reservation in India 1919-1947
(University of North Bengal, 1994) Raychaudhury, Nairanjana; Mukherjee, Mihir Mohan
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Gujjars and the Electoral Politics in Rajasthan
(University of North Bengal, 2016-03) Patra, Soumyajit; Bera, Dibakar
The politics of the BJP has so far been a politics of mobilization whether at the state or at the central level in the truest sense, and one can realize that most often than not the basis of this mobilization is religious sentiments that appeal to the minds of the majority. The issues of the dalits or the so called “picchre barg’’ also come to agenda as a part of this mobilization politics if it is Uttar Pradesh or Bihar. The Gujjar movement in Rajasthan had brought to the fore an electoral promise of the BJP to include the Gujjars in the list of the ST of the state that helped the BJP to corner the Congress in order to get the support of the Gujjars as such. The issue was apparently simple. The Gujjar community of the Rajasthan wants ST status to have the benefit of the policy of what is sometimes called as affirmative action. But the move of the Gujjars has been opposed by the Meenas. The Gujjars and the Meenas are the two antagonistic groups in Rajasthan. The Meenas are also numerically significant in Rajasthan and play a deciding role in electoral politics. The movement of the Gujjars for the ST status has become a matter of concern for the Meenas as they are worried of losing their near-monopoly over the reserved seats for government jobs. Thus the demand for compensatory justice has led to a fear competitive claim that compels the Meenas to oppose it by all possible ways. The present paper examines how this has made the whole issue more complicated for all the political parties in that state and focuses on the nature of caste politics in Rajasthan that revolved around the demands of the Gujjars. At last under tremendous pressure government has been forced to make reservations for them as Special Backward Class.
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Participatory Governance through Women’s Representation in Gujarat: Assessing the Role and Relevance of Government Initiatives since 2000
(University of North Bengal, 2021-03) Ahmed Raza
The underrepresentation of women in the decision making process always amounts to be sensitive and patriarchal issues in a society as it totally violates the notion of equality. After 74 years of independence in India, the issue of poor representation of women in political system remained same or inadequate as compared to their population ratio, although, efforts in the form of reservation, awareness and laws are continued. The paper has chosen Gujarat as a case study in order to explore the rationales behind decreasing trend towards women representation in Gujarat state assembly election and Lok Sabha election held in 2017 and 2019 respectively. Though, representation of women through 50 percent reservation has been a successful in local bodies including Gujarat. This paper also made an analysis of legal and institutional steps carried by Gujarat government since 2000 towards empowering women for ensuring their inclusiveness in the decision making process.
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Scheduled Tribe Status and Competition for Public Sector Jobs: A Study in Kalimpong Area in Darjeeling
(University of North Bengal, 2016-03) Roy, D. C.
Government job plays an important role in empowering different communities particularly the Scheduled Tribe communities in their socio-economic fields. The Constitution of India through its various provisions [Article 15(A), 16(A) etc.] has reserved jobs for Scheduled Tribe Communities in various Central and State government institutions and concerns. Members of Scheduled Tribe communities are open to avail of the opportunities created by reservation in the job market. But it has been observed that even after more than six decades of the policy of reservation being in force all communities under ST category are not equally availing of the benefits of reservation because of their differential social and economic standing. The socio-economic background, outlook, educational status, location of residence, religious faiths etc. restrict different ST communities from attaining the Constitutional provisions uniformly. The already better off sections among the ST communities are in advantageous position as they attain more benefits compared to the ST communities that are economically and educationally worse off. The growth of population and inclusion of new communities under ST category have intensified the competition and widened inequality. The present paper attempts to find the status of major ST communities of Darjeeling in availing the public sector jobs. The empowerment of women among the different ST communities in specific and in proportion to the total female employees has also been investigated. Religion is seen to play an important role in attainment of education and therefore jobs. The present paper attempts to investigate the relation between education and employment among the different ST groups of the region.