Reservation for Economically Weaker Sections
The base of Reservation has been broadened to include economically weaker sections also. It is open to the government to notify the income of the family from time to time for the purpose of obtaining benefit thereunder. At least the Act through which the Constitution has been amended says so. The Constitution (One Hundred and Third Amendment) Act, 2019 came into existence on a day which is observed in our country as National Youth Day i.e 12th January. The breakneck speed with which the Bill became an Act tells many things without actually telling about the conscience and compulsion in the politics of this country. Prior to the said amendment the citizens outside the fold of socially and educationally backward classes, Schedule Castes/Tribes were not eligible to be considered for reservations howsoever and whatsoever economically weak or deprived they may be. This was so because they belonged to such Castes as thought to be Upper ones in the social hierarchy believed by tradition. Of ...