Reservations Should Address Economic Vulnerability

Reservation policy fails to achieve its purpose of giving equal opportunity to everyone because of lack of infrastructure in the rural areas of the country where the proportion of backward classes is significant.
A number of people living in some remote areas in Orissa, M. P. or Bihar are not even aware of these policies. They are deprived of even primary education and basic employment which make them more backward financially. It fails to establish which causes disequilibrium in the status of the states.
The total reservation quota stands at 49% in many states of India and this includes the SCs, STs, and OBCs. The trend seems to have shifted to reverse discrimination rather than more affirmative action. Some backward class’s elite has gained political and economic advantage based on this reservation. 2 However, a majority of the backward classes is not living any differently than before because their subsistence is inadequate and rural lifestyles do not provide them with any of the benefits. The
worst thing is that many are not even aware of these policies, especially in the interior parts of the nation.3 Thus a different economic class system present within the backward classes category. Most people who are economically strong have gained the advantages and the economically weaker people are still without any significant positive change in their condition.