These are laws (both Constitutional and statutory) or merely local rules/ regulations/ practices (not derived from any Act passed by the Parliament or State-Legislature) wherein a certain percentage of total available vacancies in educational institutes and government jobs are set aside for people from backward communities and others. Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Other Backward Classes (OBC) are the primary beneficiaries of the reservation policies under the Constitution—with the object of ensuring a level playing field (without defining the bench-mark that determines which particular individual player has reached the said 'level '; the Supreme Court 's recent concept of 'creamy layer ' requires a case-by-case determination as to who has ceased to deserve protection of these Laws).
The reservation system has been a matter of contention ever since it was first introduced in the British occupied India and remains a point of conflict—nay, a form of protectionism [placing a 'handicap ' upon certain communities] was introduced by the Mughals who levied 'jazia ' tax against the Hindu traders.
Many citizens who
References: [edit]Institutions kept out of the purview of reservation The following institutions have been kept out of the purview of Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Act, 2006:[21],[22]