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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Quota, old plus new -Christophe Jaffrelot & Kalaiyarasan A

Quota, old plus new -Christophe Jaffrelot & Kalaiyarasan A

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published Published on Mar 3, 2019   modified Modified on Mar 3, 2019
-The Indian Express

There are substantial inequalities even within Dalits. In addition to the 15 per cent quota, the community should also have reservation based on socioeconomic criteria.

Reservations are sometimes criticised in a constructive manner by analysts who argue that quotas are cornered by a few jatis at the expense of those who “really need them”. Among Dalits, the Jatavs of Uttar Pradesh and the Mahars of Maharashtra have been targeted by such critiques. The India Human Development Survey, and its last two rounds of 2004-05 and 2011-12, helps us assess the limitations of such a discourse which, usually, does not rely on any solid data.

In terms of their annual per capita mean income (APCMI), Jatavs are not at all doing better than other important Dalit jatis of UP: They earned only Rs 6,135 a year in 2011-12, against Rs 6,643 for the Pasis and Rs 9,077 for the Dhobis. Interestingly, the APCMI of the Jatavs had increased by 125 per cent between 2004-05 and 2011-12, whereas that of the Pasis has jumped by 162 per cent and that of the Dhobis by 198 per cent.

Despite this increase, Dalits, with an average mean income of Rs 6,847 in 2011-12, continued to lag far behind all the other caste groups, including Brahmins (Rs 15,497) and Yadavs (Rs 12,271), something which may complicate the relations between the BSP and SP. The only Hindu jatis earning less than the average Dalits were the Lodhis and the Gaderias.

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The Indian Express, 2 March, 2019, https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/general-category-quota-dalit-sc-st-reservation-old-plus-new-5607504/?fbclid=IwAR0xtDoGc3pVJxGUVZ6hzkzXDkPVRaRiOyGJr


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