New Reservation Policy: Is It Empirically Justifiable?

Estimates suggest that as high as 80% (Bhalla 2019) to 95% (Desai 2019) of the general category households will be eligible for this quota. [...]the above EWS criteria are prone to the error of wrong inclusion rather than addressing exclusion. [...]the primary focus of this article is to ascertain t...

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Published in:Economic and political weekly 2019-06
Main Author: Bheemeshwar Reddy A Sunny Jose Pindiga Ambedkar Vikranth Sagar Reddy V S Nishikanth
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Architectural engineering
Education
Educational facilities
Higher education
Households
Khan, Sal
Social science research
Students
Technical institutes
Urban areas
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Summary:Estimates suggest that as high as 80% (Bhalla 2019) to 95% (Desai 2019) of the general category households will be eligible for this quota. [...]the above EWS criteria are prone to the error of wrong inclusion rather than addressing exclusion. [...]the primary focus of this article is to ascertain the empirical validity of this claim. Except for architecture and medicine, the share of EBC students stands at almost double in all other categories of institutions, from the proposed 10% quota. [...]it is evident that the EBC students have already secured about three times the number of seats under the proposed quota of 10%, without any reservation in higher education institutions. [...]the possible impact of the proposed reservation policy is likely to be lesser in the higher education sector, and not as the "game changer"that it has been touted as.
ISSN:0012-9976