socially disadvantaged groups?
Yes, it is true that the disadvantaged should have access to high quality primary education. Yes, imaginative solutions should be found to overcome the centuries-old practice of caste-based discrimination, but none of this precludes reservation as a corrective measure. Reservations cannot take the place of comprehensive societal changes, but they constitute a very important, necessary step in the process of compensating for centuries of discrimination. Reservations promote integration in the upper strata of society — by increasing the access of highly disadvantaged and under-represented communities to elite occupations and decision- making positions. In this manner, reservations result in greater empowerment of hitherto disadvantaged communities. A study on the impact of three decades of reservations in higher education for the SC/ST community in India [8] shows that “reservation policies at all levels of higher education both redistribute SC and ST students upward in the university qu
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