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rather bteak. While seat increase in itself is good, it is extremely alarming that the powers that be think of it only to accommodate "generall/ (read privileged) students. For a more inclusive, democratic education, we must .
demand that the SC, STand OBC quota be implemented properly, no matter whatthe number of seats. We must ask both the administration and the JNUSU leadership, why are they Ignoring the fact that the even .
the SC/ST quota in a number of specific schools and centers (science, Law and Governance, Arts and Aesthetics etc) is .
not being fulfHied. Students from oppressed castes who could have qualified in the 'General' category are pushed into the quotas, keeping non-quota seats 'reserved' for students from privileged backgrounds. Discrimination against M. Phil candidates from oppressed sections in School of Arts and Aesthetics was made public lac;t year. The JNUSU .
leadership, forgetting its pre-election promises, failed to probe the case or ensure anycorrectlve mechanism. How come there is no union mobilisation to empower the Equal Opportunities office? Besides, democratization of education doesn't stop at reservation: the underprivileged students need bridge courses and remedial courses, which .
unfortunately, only exists on paper. How come no organization, left, right, centre or even BSF, is not talking about any of these material issues? .
Is pny government eyen interested In properly implementing reservation, let along iD the annibil atjon of .
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cast@? Most student organizations in this campus reflect the policies of their masters in the parliament, governments .
and legislatures. To understand their apathy we must look at what their masters are doing. Studies show that condition .
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of the oppressed castes are almost uniformly terrible across the land, even in the states ruled by the so called left. .
Forget OBC reservation, even the SCI ST reservation which has been in place for years has not been implemented. .
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The only place where the quota has not only been fulfilled, but has been hugely exceeded is in the Group D sweeper J .
safai karmchari category -which only shows that even with reservation, the privileged finds ways to segregate the .
oppressed castes into traditional professionsf .
The percentage in Class I, II, & III jobs falls far below even the minimum reservatjon. To look at just one .
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example, in year 2000, in central Public Sector Enterprises, the percentage of SC in Group A jobs was 10.35°/o, ST was 2.97°/o. In Group Bit was 11.05 and 4.18 °/o respectively. Whereas, the SC percentage among safai karmacharis was a whopping 73.15°/o' Even conservative government reports (like that of National Commission of SC & St, year 2000-01) clearly show that the same pattern occurs through out other govt offices. In 1993, in all high courts combined, the .
number of SC judges was 13 (2.38°/o), ST was 4 (0.73°/o)! It is not surprising that the anti-reservation brigade gets .
such a great deal in the courts' (Which is not to say that judges or any other high official from an under privileged .
background cannot be co-opted and is necessarily pro-dalit or pro-poor.) total expenditure has been spent on the SC, ST and OBCs combined (reportofWorking Group on Development ofSCsLiberalisation is only making it worse: Since the inception of five year plans in India less than 2 percent of the dun'ng El''five yearplan). The same pattern IS replicated rn the in the yearly budgets, with things getting progressively worse since the beginning of Manmohan's liberalisation (which in essence is supported and implemented by the entire spectrum ofmparliamental)' parties -from BJP to Official Left, BSP to SP). The Central Social service budget has gone .
down from 0.37°/o of the total budget in 1991-92 to to 0.2q0/o in 2004-05, and within this miniscule budget, the specific .
allocation for SC, STand OBC has gone down from 7.06°/o to 2.89°/o. health, education etc.) is getting reduced. Liberalisation is af5o nullifying the possibilities of reservation by decreasing.
In fact, the budget allocation for all sectors that can positively·impact the life of the masses (like agriculture, .
public sector employment and privatising education. The resources of the people is being drained out by MNCs. .
Rampant unemployment and lack of access to education (both are worse among the oppressed castes, but by no means restricted to them)~ are making things worse for all but the privileged few. .
'Reservation js a part ofthe struggle to @nnihifate caste. nota substitute for it: Thanks to reservation, the .
oppressed castes today are at least nominally representated 111 many professions, but that is hardly annihilation of caste as the numbers are really miniscule. The BSP formula could indeed project an individual dalit to a high seat of state power, but .
would that mean da/its"capturing power-or the state becoming a dalit state? Annihilation of caste through individual progress, .
not even the extended' family, leave alone the community. In fact, history shows that it breaks the community, with.
in effect questions the need for emancipation of the community. Individual progress can at best help the immediate family, members getting co-opted into the ruling order. Besides, if alldalits are capable of making progress as individuals within this system of exploitation, then what is the need for a collective emancipation of the community? Along with reservation, the .
for annihilation of caste is integrally tied to the movement for land reform and control over natural resources the .
tndus~alists and contractors. No wonder that both leadership and rank & file of the much maligned ~axalite .
spearheading the struggle for ragical social transformation are predominantly dalit and tribal. .
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