Special Provisions for Certain Classes

Constitutional promise is explicitly for social exclusion and discrimination

Articles 330-342 under Part 16 of the Constitution outline special provisions for certain classes. The Constitution identifies only four such classes — SCs, STs, Backward Classes and Anglo Indians. The Constitutional promise is explicitly for social exclusion and discrimination.

While providing quotas for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in jobs in the nineties (and in higher educational institutions in 2006), the target group was “socially and educationally backward classes”. The OBCs included the ‘middle castes’, who used their hands to engage in a variety of specific occupations, often with connotations of being ‘lowly’ occupations.

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