Efforts on to tackle Maoists issue politically: Buddhadeb
Rather our Marxists friends try to get the Paul Fifa cup Fame to set afresh their Apple Cart once again as it is learnt that Mamata Banerjee Band has already contacted to get it to ascertain Electoral Victory next year. It may be a joke but the bigger JOKE is produced by the Marxists with their INNOVATIONS to win over the breakaway SC, OBC and Muslim Vote Bank Bases in Bengal even after thirty five years of UNCHALLENGED Regime!Indian Holocaust My Father`s Life and Time - Four Hundred Twenty One
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Rather our Marxists friends try to get the Paul Fifa cup Fame to set afresh their Apple Cart once again as it is learnt that Mamata Banerjee Band has already contacted to get it to ascertain Electoral Victory next year. It may be a joke but the bigger JOKE is produced by the Marxists with their INNOVATIONS to win over the breakaway SC, OBC and Muslim Vote Bank Bases in Bengal even after thirty five years of UNCHALLENGED Regime!
Last Marxist Survival Kit of OBC Quota in Bengal after Thirty Five Years of EXCLUSION, May Not Save the SINKING RED Titanic!As the Left Front government will introduce reservation for OBCs in higher education, including the state medical and engineering institutes, from the coming academic year.State Higher Education Minister Sudarsan Roychowdhury made the announcement in the Assembly on Monday.
Meanwhile, Ananda Bazaar Patrika Published yet another EDIT against Reservation and Quota. The logic stays focused on the fact that the Ruling Brahaminical Hegemony is not give away Opportunities for Untochables, Shudras, Minorities, Tribals on Percentage basis. that is why the Brahamins do oppose so VIOLENTLY the idea of OBC headcount. In Bengal,OBC 52 percent and Muslims 27 percent had been stable Vote Bank for the Marxist Regemented Gestapo whereas these communities got nothing in the Marxist Regime. The Sacchar Committe report disillusioned the Muslims while the OBC communities seem to cross the Fences to join Mamata Banerjee who has also scceeded to win the SC and Refugee Vote bank with her Rebel and Human Mythical Desguise Matua!
The Hegemony has Mutilated and manipulated Aboriginal Indigenous Identies and nationalities with Brahaminical Vedic Hinduisation of Genocide Culture, Ethnic Cleansing and Exclusion. Post Modern Zionist Manusmriti Corporate Order and the Government of India Incs in strategic realliance have CONFIRMED the Caste system with Global Hindutva and Free Market Democracy with an Agenda of Rothschild branded Mass Destruction. The aryans Destroyed the Mohanjodoro Harappa Lothal Indus Saraswati Valley Aboriginal urban Civilisation. Now the Brahaminical Academia is trying to REPLICATE their GODMINT ancestors to destroy the Indus Identity of Indian Aboriginal Indigenous Humanscape once again coining the clouds of Uncertainities once again amidst Chidamabaram`s Corporate War and all round Monopolistic aggression!
Amidst Marxist Capitalist Industrial Urbanisation Environment,at least 27 people were taken ill after toxic methane and carbon monoxide gases leaked from a blast furnace at the Durgapur Steel Plant (DSP) in West Bengal's Burdwan district on Thursday. The incident occurred when the employees of the DSP were working at blast furnace number 2, police said. Twenty-four of the affected
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workers were immediately rushed to the Durgapur Steel Plant-run hospital. Three others, standing a few metres away from the furnace, recovered within minutes and did not need hospitalisation.
Four of the critically ill workers have been admitted in the Intensive care Unit (ICU). Ten people have already been discharged after treatment, a DSP official said.
The chief of communication DSP, BR Kanungo confirmed the gas leak.
"We are yet to ascertain the reason for the emission of gases from blast furnace number 2. Subsequently, all measures have been taken to stop the leak," Kanungo told IANS over phone.
"An expert committee has been formed to investigate the incident," he added.
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MUSLIMS KICK OUT MARXISTS BUT GET FOOLED BY A FEMALE MONSTER
Blood-thirsty "Calcutta Kali" gets ready to take over Bengal : Big victory for Bhadralok
That our Manuwadi marxists and maoists are more dangerous blood-suckers has been the consistent stand of Dalit Voice. Our time-tested thesis is once again proved in the latest W. Bengal civic elections in which the mere 8% Brahminical Bhadralok controlling the Bengali marxists party was thrown into the Bay of Bengal. Good news.If you want to see what the record 33-year-old unbroken, murderous manuwadi marxist rule did to Dalits, Muslims, OBCs, please go to Calcutta — reduced to one big stinking slum. The people — simply reduced to mere skin and bone — live like worms. The worst sufferers are the Muslims who form about 30% of the state population.
Jump from frying pan into fire: If you want to see the real face of Brahminism, parading as Hinduism, go to Calcutta. Even its most fashionable area around Park Street has become a stinking slum.
But look at what the unthinking Bahujan victims of the manuwadi marxists did? They jumped from frying pan into the burning fire — lit by the notorious "Calcutta Kali" — eccentric, unpredictable and 150% Brahmin.
She uses the crumpled cotton sari, and lives in a slum-like locality to hide her crores. The new female face of the vulture in disguise has deceived the innocent Bahujans. The Bengali Brahmins groomed, nurtured and painstakingly built up the monstrous Mamata Banerji to take control of Bengal and she will suck the last remaining drops of blood of the Bahujans and will rule for another 20 years.
Marxists cheated Muslims: Marxists may boast "they ensured social peace" between Hindus and Muslims. But who wants this peace of the graveyard ?
Marxists cheated Muslims. We understand their total disenchantment with the Manuwadi marxists. This is fully understandable.
Muslims form about 30% of the state population and in the eastern part they go up to 40%. The heartless and less than 8% Brahminical Bhadralok controlling the CPM, hated the Muslims.
Brahminism and Islam are like serpent and mongoose. From centuries the two were daggers drawn. When the Brahmins could not defeat the Bengali Muslims, they finally managed to kick them out by partitioning Bengal itself by creating Bangladesh. The Brahmins and Muslims are blood-enemies. How did the Muslim mongoose forget its historical enemy and sleep with the serpent?
One-woman dictatorship: For committing this yet another mistake the Muslims will be again punished. In their anger against marxists they have jumped from frying pan into the very Mamata fire. If the marxists are leading a coalition of Left parties in Bengal, Mamata's will be a one-woman dictatorship. Please don't forget that the "Calcutta Kali" is also a Brahmin plus a Kali who loves to drink blood. The Muslim love for Mamata will be short lived.
When will the Dalits, OBCs and Muslims of Bengal — victims of Brahminism from centuries — start thinking? We are deeply worried.
Brahmins rejoice: But the micro-minority Bhadralok (Brahmin, Baidya, Kayasth) are silently rejoicing that they could find a young woman, a ruthless rabble rouser, capable of bulldozing the over 90% slaves and ensuring the continuity of the Brahminical rule.
Chitpavans learnt from Bhadralok: If you want to see how Brahminism is having its naked dance, please go to Calcutta. The Chitpavan Brahmin ancestors of Nathuram Godse — killer of the "Father of the nation" — went to Calcutta to study how to suck the blood of the Bahujans — painlessly and that too without the victims being aware of it.
Unthinking Muslims: The CPM politburo admitted in Delhi on June 5, 2010 that the Muslims, "who loved CPM", did not vote for the party in the latest Calcutta and other civic elections in Bengal. Why? Because the Brahmin-controlled CPM proved to be worse than the openly anti-Muslim RSS-BJP Hindu terrorist parties. The Bengali Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya is a notorious Brahmin who hated the Muslims.
Female monster: When we recently inaugurated a big Dalit-Muslim conference in Howrah, a suburb of Calcutta, we could gauge the anger of the thinking Muslims against the Manuwadi marxists. Every time we criticised the CPM, there was a burst of clapping.
But what did these same Muslims do now? The Manuwadi marxists merely sucked the blood of the Muslims but the "Calcutta Kali" will eat them live.
The Bahujans of Calcutta and Bengal in general may be happy that they could wipe-out the marxist menace. But in the process they will be embracing a more horrible female monster.
Over 95% of the Bengali Muslims are Dalit converts. (Dr. Abdul Momin Chaudhary, Buddhism in South Asia, LISA, London. Copies availble with Dalit Voice. Rs.300). These are historical facts. But even after getting defeated every time and a portion of them kicked out of India (into Bangladesh), the Bengali Muslims have not learnt any lesson.
Dalit-Muslim unity: Their salvation lies in joining their blood brother Dalits. We have said this in all our speeches in Calcutta and both the parties have agreed with our solution. As our elder brothers endowed with a rich religion, it is for the Bengali Muslims, once the rulers of undivided Bengal, to re-assert themselves by joining with Dalits, particularly the Namasudras.
Lack of media of our own: Yes, we do admit our weakness. We have no powerful media of our own to propagate the Dalit-Muslim unity magic formula. The Brahminical enemy is doing its best to keep the non-Hindu Dalits as Hindu and slave. But it is for the ideologically richer Muslims — with Quran as their guide — to embrace the Dalits. (See p.28).
"Butcher of Bengal": If there was one single person, who fully used marxism to strengthen Brahminism in Bengal and reduce Dalits and Muslims into dirt poor, the credit goes to Jyoti Basu who died in Calcutta on Jan.17, 2010 (DV Feb.16, 2010 p.9: "Jyoti Basu as butcher of Bengal"). When the slaves heaved a sigh of relief on his death, then came the purest and the cruelest of the Bengali Brahmin, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya. The stage is now set for the rise of the blood-drinking "Calcutta Kali".
When will the slaves of India wake up?
DV Edit May 1, 2010: "Wanted caste wars to finish fake marxists: Bengali Bhadralok took communism to fight Muslims". "Brahmin worry over caste wars".
DV March 1, 2010 p.26: "Butcher of Bengal as darling of Bhadralok".
DV Feb.16, 2010 p.9: "Jyoti Basu butchered Bengali Dalits & established Bhadralok dictatorship"
DV Oct.1, 2009 p.21: "Why marxists target only Muslim-dominated Bengal & Kerala"?
DV June 1, 2008 p.23: "Mere 3% Brahmins rule in the name of Marxism: Dalit-Muslim unity can destroy Bengal Brahminical hegemony".
http://www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/july2010/editorial.htm
Efforts on to tackle Maoists issue politically: Buddhadeb
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West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Thursday advocated the need to counter the Maoists issue politically while also seeking cooperation from the opposition in this endeavour.
"Efforts are being made to tackle Maoists politically and I hereby call upon the opposition to come forward to make the endeavour successful, Mr. Bhattacharjee said in the Assembly on Thursday.
Replying to a question, he said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's meeting with Chief Ministers of Naxalite-affected states in Delhi recently discussed, among other things, setting up a Unified Combat force to counter the Maoist threat.
Stating that an anti-terrorist training centre was being planned in the Naxal-hit West Midnapore district, the CM said details would be disclosed only after finalising its exact location.
Besides, the State government has taken up steps to modernise the police force to counter attack by terrorist groups, while forces were being increased to strengthen vigil in the districts where Maoist posters were found.
Mr. Bhattacharjee said a special unit has already been set up in this for this under the DIG (Operation), CID.
A counter-insurgency force, under the leadership of an IGP (Operation), has been also formed and would start functioning soon, he said. In Kolkata Police too, a special task force has been set up under an official of the rank of Joint Commissioner of Police.
Special training for the police has also been arranged with the help of the Army to counter terrorist attacks and contain militant activities in the State, the Chief Minister said.
Joint training programmes have been arranged with the central security agencies to thwart threats from ultras and prevent disclosure of classified information.
Already several updated gadgets, arms and vehicles have been procured as part of upgradation of the police force in the State, Mr. Bhattacharjee said.
Keywords: West Bengal, Maoists, Chief Minister, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
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Swine flu: West Bengal Minister critical
A West Bengal minister is stated to be in a critical condition after being struck by swine flu as six fresh cases of the infection were reported today taking the total number of those being afflicted to 12 in the city.West Bengal Water Resources Minister Nandagopal Bhattacharya has been diagnosed with the infection, State health department's nodal officer for swineflu Asit Biswas said here.
Health Minister Suryakanta Mishra said the throat swab of Bhattacharya, already admitted in a city clinic with respiratory distress and brain haemorrhage, has tested positive.
The Minister's office in the State secretariat said his condition was critical. "His swab was found positive by the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases," his office said.
Five of those infected in the city proper and Dum Dum in the northern outskirts have been admitted to various hospitals including the State—run I D hospital at Beliaghata.
The swine flu patients have been kept in isolation wards. "The condition of one of them is stated to be critical," Mr. Biswas said.
Health Department sources said none of the affected was reported to have visited any foreign country. A 100-bed isolation ward has been set up at the ID hospital.
In 2009, 135 persons were affected by swineflu in the State, but no one died.
This decision of the state government assumes significance as the government is modifying the OBC list to bring certain groups of Muslim communities under the OBC umbrella.
"Through OBC reservation in higher education, one can provide Muslims with an advantage in higher education. But, the state government has been purposely sitting on the issue. It is still undecided on the percentage of reservations," Nepal Mahato said.
Following the Ranganath Mishra Commission recommendations in February this year, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee announced that 10 per cent government jobs in the state would be reserved for minorities in the state.
The Backward Classes and Welfare Department has so far enlisted 35 OBC Muslim categories in the list of 90 categories of OBCs in the state, eligible for the 10 per cent reservation in jobs.
The latest reservations come in addition to the existing SC and ST reservations, and will cover OBCs, including Muslim OBCs.
"For the other backward classes, the government has taken a decision in principle to introduce reservations. For universities and institutions monitored by Central agencies, the state government would soon announce the portion of overall seats meant for reservations," the minister said in reply to a question posed by Congress MLA Nepal Mahato.
The state's move has, however, failed to impress the Opposition. Trinamool's Leader of the Opposition in the state Assembly Partha Chatterjee said: "This (reservation) is a gimmick. They (government) will not do anything," said Chatterjee.
State higher education minister Sudarshan Ray Chaudhury today told the Assembly that the government had accepted a proposal for the introduction of the OBC quota in higher education from the next academic session, scheduled to begin from July-August 2011.
"A particular percentage of seats are reserved for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe candidates in undergraduate and postgraduate courses offered by the state-aided colleges and universities in Bengal. Necessary steps are being taken to reserve a certain percentage of seats for OBC candidates as well from the next academic session," Ray Chaudhury said.
The new system will be implemented in all the undergraduate and postgraduate courses offered by over 450 colleges and 12 universities in Bengal, including Presidency, Calcutta University and Jadavpur University.
Sources said the move was being initiated with an eye on the next Assembly elections, scheduled for May next year. However, given that the undergraduate and postgraduate admissions are held in July and August respectively, the OBC quota is likely to be implemented only after the elections are over.
"There was a long-standing demand for the introduction of the OBC quota in higher education from members of the community. We welcome the move. But it is uncertain whether the decision is going to have any impact on the elections," a Calcutta University professor said.
At present, 7 per cent of posts in state government services, including teaching and non-teaching posts in schools, colleges and universities, are reserved for OBC candidates. "It is expected that when the proposal is implemented, the state government will reserve 7 per cent seats in higher education institutions for OBC candidates," a source said.
Ray Chaudhury said the reservation of seats for OBC candidates in medical, engineering and law colleges will have to be done in accordance with reservation policies followed by the agencies regulating them.
Gas leak at West Bengal plant, 15 in hospital
Monideepa Banerjie, Updated: July 15, 2010 19:19 ISTRead more at: http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/gas-leak-at-west-bengal-plant-15-in-hospital-37716?cp
Durgapur: A gas leak at a steel plant in West Bengal has led to at least 15 workers being hospitalized.
On Thursday morning, 25 workers at the Durgapur Steel Plant who were on duty in a zone referred to as Blast Furnace 2 complained of nausea, drowsiness and breathlessness. They were given first aid and then moved to hospital. Ten of them have been released.
The management of the plant originally denied a gas leak was to blame, but later confirmed some blast furnace gas had escaped from the scrubber area of the gas cleaning plant. The leak was sealed and operations at the plant are back to normal.
A committee headed by the plant's General Manager will investigate the accident.
Read more at: http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/gas-leak-at-west-bengal-plant-15-in-hospital-37716?cp
| UNCERTAIN ANCESTRIES - Who are the Indians? | |
| Writing on the wall - Ashok V. Desai | |
There are many similarities between Sanskrit and other Indo-European languages like Greek and Latin. But the similarity does not extend to the people who speak them. Europeans are taller and fairer, and often have blue eyes and blonde hair, whereas Indians generally stick to brown eyes and black hair. These facts have caused confusion, and generated copious academic and pseudo-scholarly literature. According to Christian mythology, every human and animal is descended from those whom Noah accommodated in his boat at the time of the great flood. Thus, humans are all descended from Noah's three sons. His family lived on the mountain of Ararat in Armenia. It spoke the same language. But after the Tower of Babel was built, verbose debate broke out, and different languages emerged. Thus Père Coeurdoux, a French priest, stated in 1768: "The Samskroutam language is that of the ancient Brahmes; they came to India from Caucasia. Of the sons of Japhet, some spoke Samskroutam." The linguistic similarities were noticed even earlier. Soon after Vasco Da Gama discovered the Cape route to India. Filippo Sassetti, an Italian Jesuit priest who was in Goa in the 1580s, noted that the terms in Sanskrit and in Mediterranean languages for six, seven, eight and nine, God, snakes, etc were similar. Some held that Sanskrit was the original language whence all others emerged. In the 19th century, philologists formulated rules of linguistic evolution, which went against that notion. But even if Sanskrit was not the mother of all languages, it was believed to be the oldest surviving daughter of the original Indo-European language. The 19th century saw the beginnings of anthropology. One of its first conceptual categories was race: Caucasian, negroid, mongoloid, etc. Strangely, anthropologists did not specify a race for Indians. They were dark like negroes, but did not have their curly hair or broad noses. Some British colonials referred to Indians as niggers; but this was not a commonly accepted classification. But whatever they were, Indians were not regarded as Caucasian once India was colonized. So the question arose: how did these un-Aryan people have their scriptures in an ancient Aryan language? The answer in the 19th century was that Sanskrit was the language of Aryans who came to India from Iran, Afghanistan or central Asia, and that they intermarried with local Dravidian and Munda people until the present mixture emerged. The geography of languages fitted the theory. Northerners spoke Aryan languages, southerners Dravidian languages, and Mundas were scattered towards the east. A few Dravid and Munda words were found in Sanskrit, which seemed to support the story of migration. When did the Aryans come to India? Evidently before the Vedas were written. No references to European or central Asian flora and fauna are found in the Vedas. So they were written in India; the Aryans must have come to India before they composed their Sanskrit literature. Max Müller, professor of Sanskrit in Oxford in the second half of the 19th century, found a reference to one Katyayana Vararuchi in Kathasaritsagara, the Ocean of Stories. He was supposed to have been made prime minister by King Nanda. Nanda ruled before the Mauryas. So Max Müller placed him in 350-300 BC. He assumed this was the same Katyayana who had written some sutras. So he assigned them to 600-200 BC. The sutras refer to parts of Vedic texts called Brahmanas, so the latter must have been written before the former; he assigned them to 800-600 BC. Brahmanas were preceded by certain mantras, and mantras by chhandas. Max Müller gave each a period of 200 years, and so came to 1200-1000 BC for the earliest parts of Vedic literature. He thought that 200 years was too short, but one had to start somewhere. Later, he himself said that it was impossible to determine the date of the Vedas. But it did not matter; Western scholars adopted Max Müller's dates as definitive. Meanwhile, Sir Alexander Cunningham, while wandering across Punjab and Sind, came across Harappa and Mohenjo Daro in 1853. His discoveries were forgotten till the 1920s, when Sir John Marshall excavated Mohenjo Daro. He had found an urban civilization; it did not fit with the Vedas, which hardly mention cities. Indus seals found in Mesopotamia, which placed the Indus civilization in 2000-1500 BC at the latest. The (still undeciphered) script of the Indus seals was unrelated to Devanagari, and ruled out the civilization as having been Aryan. If the Aryans came to India, crossed the Indus valley and wrote the Vedas in 1200-1000 BC, they must have crossed the path of the Indus people. On the basis of 37 skeletons he found in the citadel of Mohenjo Daro, Sir John concluded that the city had been overrun by Aryan hordes. Later examination showed that only one of the 37 could have met a violent death. If Aryans had destroyed the Indus civilization, they should have left substantial evidence of destruction and death. It has not been found yet, so the story of invasion remains unproved. The Indus civilization was so called because Harappa and Mohenjo Daro, the first sites discovered, were in the Indus valley. With Partition, Indian archaeologists lost the Indus valley sites. They had to find something else to do, so they started excavating sites in India. They found plenty of Indus valley sites; Lothal in Gujarat and Dholera in Kutch are the best known. Vedic literature talks of Saptasindhu, the seven rivers. Five are the rivers of Punjab — Beas, Sutlej, Ravi, Chenab and Jhelum. Indus is the sixth; where is the seventh? The Vedas called it Saraswati, but it has disappeared meanwhile. C.F. Oldham made a guess in 1893 that a dry riverbed called Ghaggar or Hakra running through Bikaner and Bahawalpur was once the Saraswati about which the Vedic writers waxed so lyrical. Satellite imagery has revealed that both the Sutlej and the Jumna once flowed into the Ghaggar; they would have made it a substantial river. Both changed course and left Ghaggar dry. Sir Aurel Stein found many Harappan and post-Harappan sites along its course. In Pakistan, Rafique Mughal has found 414 sites from 4000-2000 BC along the Hakra. Potsherds known as Painted Grey Ware, found in the bed of the Ghaggar, are dated to 1000 BC, so the river must have dried up before then. These dates place the Vedas much before 1000 BC. And if they are older, their composers must have coincided with or preceded the Harappans. The Vedas show no awareness of any region outside India; but there is outside literature that bears close resemblance to them. The oldest part of Avesta, the holy book of Zoroastrians, is called yasna; it consists of five gathas whose language is close to Sanskrit. It mentions Hapta Hendu, Harahvaiti and Harayu. Then there is a 14th-century BC treaty between a Hittite and a Mitanni king (Turkish and Iraqi in modern parlance) which mentions the gods Indara, Mitras, and Uruvanass, who could be Indra, Mitra and Varuna. Edwin Bryant tells us all this in his The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture (Oxford, 2003), but does not answer in the end who Indians are. |
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SC ruling may add to caste census clamour
NEW DELHI: The demand for caste census is likely to get a fillip with the Supreme Court on Tuesday appearing to draw a link between OBC population and quantum of reservation for backward classes.Coming just ahead of Parliament's monsoon session where proponents of caste census are set to renew their pitch, the order allowing Karnataka and Tamil Nadu to continue reservations exceeding the SC's 50% cap can inspire pro-Mandal players to push anew for an exercise to determine the exact population of backward castes.
The SC relief is laden with possibilities, the biggest being a political justification for OBC satraps who have chafed at the 50% cap.
The fresh linkage between population and reservation quantum, even if not final, comes just when OBC satraps have stepped up pressure for caste census. The delay and the voices of opposition from Congress ranks have led them to fear that government could be backpedalling.
With Parliament session looming, the government may find itself under more pressure from backward outfits like SP and RJD who it needs on its side to boost its numbers.
While the proponents of caste census have argued that enumeration of OBCs was required to better target the policies of OBC welfare, like knowing the size of the OBC group would help in determining the funds for welfare schemes, suspicions remain that the demand is actually driven by quota considerations. The anti-caste census camp believes that the `Q' word has been avoided as it would have invited resistance from non-reserved communities and mired the issue in controversy.
But the ruling is a welcome relief for Congress vis-a-vis coalition politics. With the countdown to elections in Tamil Nadu having started, any adverse ruling would have put ally DMK under pressure and forced the Congress to firefight on its behalf in the apex court.
It was not an easy option as aggressive lobbying in favour of 50%-plus quota law of Tamil Nadu would have risked Congress the ire of non-reserved classes. Unlike DMK which does business only within the OBC-dominated TN, Congress has to balance its policies between the antagonistic social groups.
As reservation is a sensitive issue in Dravidian politics, the implications of an unsettled DMK could have been huge for UPA, especially as it is the third largest UPA partner.
The arguments flowing out of the SC order may not all be rosy for the `quotawallahs' though. That apex court has ruled on the legality of the TN law brings into focus the three-year-old judgment on the 9th Schedule of Constitution. It means all the laws which are put under the said schedule for legal immunity are up for review. In the long run, it can have consequences for other quota laws, which were the prime beneficiary of this firewall.
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Justice is not easy to achieve; neither does it allow for shortcuts. The government of Orissa has decided to impose conditions of employment on companies entering the state. These companies would have to reserve 90 per cent of the jobs in the unskilled and semi-skilled categories for local people, 60 per cent in the skilled group and 30 per cent in the supervisory and managerial segment. The industries minister of the state has elucidated that the local people would first be from among those displaced by the project, and second, from among people domiciled in the state. The companies would be free to look around only for their senior executives. This policy has obviously been evolved to quieten heightening discontent over the employment of large numbers of non-Oriyas in the new private sector projects. Although the state has brought in investments worth Rs 6 lakh crore recently, it would seem that the promise of prosperity is being snatched away from the people who live closest to the projects.
But that is thinking for the short term — and the short view. Only the free movement of labour allows industry the choice of the most suitable workforce, and that alone is the best route to the development of any region. It is not enough to claim that the companies will find all the talent and skill they need locally since industrial training institutes are coming up in every block in Orissa. Providing immediate relief to local populations through fixed conditions of employment may seem to be a priority, but that point of view is political rather than economic. Apart from the possibility of affecting the quality of the product, protectionist policies of this kind will inevitably lead to competitive regionalism, preventing the talents, skills, and aspirations of one region from their application and fulfilment in another. The mirroring of the proposed Orissa model in industry would promote precisely the wrong kind of competition, focusing on a corner rather than on the whole of the talent pool. The disruption of lives and livelihoods of people must be compensated for through a deeper understanding of their needs. Training in skills may certainly be one of those. But if the government decides to facilitate the entry of industry, it must also arrange for the proper rehabilitation of displaced populations in all good faith, whatever money, energy, planning and sympathy that may require.
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Taxis to go off roads today after fare hike
TNN, Jul 15, 2010, 01.18am ISTKOLKATA: Taxis will go off the roads on Thursday following the one-day strike call by unions against the government's silence over their demand to hike fares.
The strike call was announced after talks between representatives of taxi unions led by Bengal Taxi Association president Bimal Guha and state transport minister Ranjit Kundu failed at the Writers' Buildings on Wednesday.
"We have decided to hold this one day token strike on Thursday against the government's negligence to look into our grievances. We are only holding a one-day token strike as they have asked us to wait for another 15 days. We will wait till July 31 and if the government fails to respond to our demand, we will chalk out our future course of agitation," Guha said.
The taxi operators had earlier threatened to go on an indefinite strike from July 15 if their demands of increasing the fare was not met. According to Guha, the main demand was that the base fare of Rs 20+2 which is fare when the meter is switched on should be increased to Rs 20+8.
Some have demanded an increase to Rs 20+5 with a complete overhaul of the fare structure above that as well.
Transport minister Ranjit Kundu said that the taxi operators demands was under consideration. "It is not correct to call a strike at a time when we were looking into all their demands. We have, however, not given them a time frame of 15 days as they are claiming," the minister said.
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5 Jun 2010, 1300 hrs IST,AGENCIESNEW DELHI: Top West Bengal leaders Buddhadeb Bhattacharya and Nirupam Sen did not attend the CPI(M) Political Bureau meeting here today as the party initiated a preliminary discussion on the recent civic body poll debacle in the state.
The two-day Polit Bureau meeting, which began this morning, was attended by General Secretary Prakash Karat, M K Pandhe, Manik Sarkar, Pinarayi Vijayan and Kodiyeri Balakrishnan.
The main agenda of the meeting is to discuss the preparations for the extended Central Committee meeting to be held in Vijayawada in August.
"We will be discussing the preparations for the extended CC Meeting," Pandhe told reporters before the meeting.
He also said the meeting will have a preliminary discussion on the Bengal civic poll results.
"The state committee has not yet discussed the matter. We will have a detailed discussion on it later. However, we will have a preliminary discussion here," he said.
However, the meeting which discusses the poll debacle is not being attended by Chief Minister Bhattacharya and state Industries Minister Nirupam Sen, both members of the Polit Bureau.
Bhattacharya has cited post-poll violence in the state as the reason for his inability for attending the meeting, Pandhe said.
This is the second time Bhattacharya is skipping a politburo meeting. Earlier, he had skipped a politburo meeting after the 2009 Lok Sabha polls where the Left suffered a huge blow in the state.
Pandhe said Sen had in the last meeting informed that he would not be available for this meeting as he had some family functions to attend.
WB Minister Nirupam Sen owns up Nano project failure
by vivek on Jun.03, 2010, under Business News
With production at the Tata Motors Nano factory at Sanand in Gujarat starting on Wednesday, West Bengal minister for commerce and industries Nirupam Sen admitted that the final responsibility for the death of the project in West Bengal lay with the government."Yes, the buck stops here. As commerce and industries minister I cannot but admit responsibility for the closure of the project. It was my failure, I must say. We could not flaunt governance to implement the project," Sen said.
The Tata Motors factory was inaugurated by Gujarat CM Narendra Modi on Wednesday with Tata Sons' chairman Ratan Tata in attendance. It was in October 2008, that Tata, at a press conference in Kolkata declared that Tata Motors was folding up its project at Singur in Hooghly district because of the continuous violence unleashed by the Trinamool Congress and it would be shifted to another state. While states like Orissa, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh among others offered sites, the Tatas opted for Gujarat.
Sen also held the Tatas responsible for the failure of the project. "Investors have also a role to play (for the setting up of a project). The investors at Posco can wait. There are other investors waiting elsewhere…. maybe they (Tatas) had a compulsion. That is why they had left," Sen said. He also gave broad indications that the Tatas would keep the land at Singur with them.
"They have been regularly paying lease rents. I don't want to say anything more," the minister said. However, Ratan Tata had always maintained that the Tatas were ready to part with the land provided the state government paid them adequate compensation.
"Today the factory was set up at Gujarat without any hassles. And a large section of jobless youth in West Bengal were deprived of huge employment opportunities. Who will pay for the colossal loss?" Sen asked.
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World Bank gives Rs.1,000 crore loan to West Bengal to strengthen Panchayat system.
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World Bank gives Rs.1,000 crore loan to West Bengal to strengthen Panchayat system.
Kolkata: The West Bengal governmenthas got a loan of Rs. 1,000 crore from the World Bank to strengthen the state's panchayat system.
Papers to understand the same was signed by representatives of the central government, state government and the World Bank at the state secretariat here on Thursday.
The panchayat and rural development department will avail the funds under a project called 'Institutional Strengthening of Gram Panchayats'.
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The department will select 1,000 gram panchayats in nine backward districts which would be provided Rs.one crore each for capacity building and providing special facilities to villagers.
'Of the Rs. one crore to be given to each gram panchayat, Rs.20 lakh would be spent on capacity building - imparting training to panchayat members to enable them to conceive and execute rural welfare projects,' said panchayat and rural development minister Anisur Rahaman.
As per the deal, the state government will not have to repay the loan for the first ten years. For the next 30 years, the loan has to be paid back in instalments with one percent surcharge, a senior government official said.
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Now playing in Left: bye-bye band - Sen joins list with appeal | |
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Calcutta, July 14: Industries minister Nirupam Sen today struck a virtual farewell note, reminding would-be successors of the folly of Kalidas in an attempt to dissuade them from cutting the "development" branch. "Political parties will come and go. Today, I am in the chair but tomorrow somebody else can be there. We won't remain in power or in the chair forever. We will have to go away," Sen told the Assembly today while participating in the debate on the state industry budget. The prophecy articulated the sense of despondency that has gripped the Left and added another voice to the chorus of doomsday predictions (see chart). Sen went one step further and almost sought to tickle the taste buds of the Opposition to save what he referred to as development projects. Without mentioning Kalidas, he referred to the fabled misadventure that propelled the "woodcutter" onto the path of unsurpassed accomplishment. "But the new set of people who will be taking over should look after the state's interest. They are cutting the branch of a tree on which they are sitting. They should not stall development projects now as that would affect the state when they will be in power," he said. The audience he was hoping to reach out to — the Trinamul Congress and the Congress — was not in the House. Both had boycotted the debate. But Sen seemed to find the subject irresistible and made an impassioned plea, returning to the theme of development frequently. Apparently keeping the 2011 Assembly elections at the back of his mind, the minister said the ruling party would accept the verdict of the people but added that politics shouldn't take centre stage in matters of development. "We must always think of what the people would get if narrow, partisan politics comes into play and stops development work. Let there be differences of opinion. Let there be debates on how the state will develop. We all will go to the people. We will bow to the wishes of the people and accept their verdict. But please don't indulge in politics when it comes to development. I would have been happy if the Opposition was in the House. But I was deprived of what they would have had to say on the industry budget,'' Sen told the House. Without going into the details of the electoral debacle the Left suffered at the hands of Trinamul in particular in the recent civic polls, the industries minister said the Opposition was sending "wrong messages'' to prospective investors that all was lost for the state. "A venomous campaign has been launched across the state that all is lost in Bengal and that an investor-friendly atmosphere isn't here. This is being done particularly after the election results that have given the Opposition parties an impetus. All these are sending wrong messages to willing investors," said Sen, who once spearheaded Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's industrialisation drive. Sen is considered close to CPM chief Prakash Karat who had yesterday said the Left in Bengal should overcome its weaknesses and shortcomings. Sen suggested that the Opposition was trying to whip up a fear psychosis about the state. "They (Opposition) are trying to give such an impression of Bengal to make investors feel scared of landing at the airport. But the reality is that investment in our state has gone up and we hope that it will be upwardly mobile in the years to come." But after the Singur and Nandigram experiences, Sen was quick to add, the policy of the state government was not to set up industry at the cost of farmers' interests. "Wherever the government is acquiring land, we are discussing with the farmers first, telling them about the compensation and rehabilitation they will get. Moreover, we are concentrating on mono crop and infertile lands. Our policy is not to affect the farmers," he said. Asked to react to the industries minister's remarks in the House, leader of the Opposition and Trinamul MLA Partha Chatterjee said: "For industry to proceed, consensus is required. But the ruling party went in for confrontation. That's why Singur (the Tata car project) didn't happen. We had asked for the publication of a white paper on which industry got how much land in the state but the government didn't oblige. Now that the whistle has been blown, the industries minister is talking about the possibility of not being in power." | |
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Time to review 27% OBC quota in education?
Dhananjay Mahapatra, TNN, Jul 12, 2010, 02.35am ISTNEW DELHI: This is the third academic year after Supreme Court on April 10, 2008, upheld the legislation providing 27% reservation for other backward castes (OBCs) in admissions to central educational institutions.
The apex court had excluded the creamy layer from benefiting under the 27% quota and said unfilled seats would be go back to the general category. The government had also assured the court that general category seats would not shrink as the institutions would create more seats to absorb the reservation requirement.
We can discount the chaos of filling the seats created for OBCs under the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admissions) Act, 2007, in 2008-09 as teething problem despite the admission process getting extended till October. However, the data for the next two academic years gives an impression that the quantum of 27% may have been far in excess of what was needed to meet the demographic demand.
In 2009-10, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) transferred 83 of the 413 seats reserved for OBCs to the general category. Of the 10,183 OBC seats in Delhi University, there were no takers for nearly 2,300 seats.
This year too, DU is witnessing a similar story. University officials are fearing that nearly 6,000 seats may get transferred to general category for want of suitable candidates from backward classes, despite the cut-off being 10 marks less than the last general category candidate taking admission in the institution.
The general category may not be complaining. But the increased number of seats will definitely put pressure on the already stretched faculty, library facilities and allied educational resources available with the institution.
This is what happens when the political class, without any scientific survey, fixes quota without identifying what constitutes backwardness in the social and educational maze. The Supreme Court had repeatedly warned against this, right from Indra Sawhney judgment in 1992 till the Ashoka Kumar Thakur judgment in 2008.
Socially and educationally backward classes (SEBCs), who are entitled for the 27% reservation in government-run colleges and institutions, are at present determined solely on the basis of the backwardness of their caste. In both these judgments relating to OBC reservation in employment and admission, the apex court had stressed that caste could not be the sole criterion for identifying the social and educational backwardness of a person.
So, without a proper identification of SEBCs, their number was guesstimated and a percentage of seats was kept reserved for them. The apex court realised it but was hampered without contradicting data to fault the socially affirmative action. That is why it suggested periodic review of the quantum of quota as well as the necessity of reservation in admission for SEBCs.
"There must be periodic review as to the desirability of continuing operation of the statute -- Central Educational Institutions (Reservations in Admission Act, 2007. This shall be done once every five years," the five-judge constitution Bench had said in Ashoka Thakur case.
Is the government prepared to review working of the 2007 law? If not, then it could utilise the opportunity provided by the census exercise presently underway to determine the exact number of persons to be included in the socially and educationally backward category to help work out the percentage of reservation needed.
dhananjay.mahapatra@timesgroup.com
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Time-to-review-27-OBC-quota-in-education/articleshow/6155833.cms
Food inflation rises to 12.81%
Annual food inflation inched up to 12.81 per cent for the week ended July 3, while fuel inflation shot up to 14.27 per cent, reflecting the hike in oil prices.In the previous week food inflation was at 12.63 per cent and fuel inflation at 18.02 per cent.
While vegetable prices fell by 5.70 per cent year-on year, costlier pulses and cereals kept food inflation higher.
Potato became cheaper by nearly 43 per cent, while onion prices were down five per cent on an annual basis. Cereals turned dearer by 6.04 per cent and rice by 6.10 per cent.
Prices of pulses shot up 28.98 per cent and that of milk by 15.91 per cent. Year-on-year fruit prices went up by 15.91 per cent.
The impact of the hike in fuel prices hike by the government on June 25 was seen in the prices of petroleum products, which rose 14.27 per cent annually.
The increase spurred the overall inflation to 10.55 per cent in June.
Prices of petrol and diesel were raised by up to Rs 3.50 a litre, while that of LPG and kerosene were hiked by 35 per cylinder and Rs 3 a litre respectively.
Food inflation had remained above the 16 per cent-level for most part of the year. However, it had fallen sharply since mid June to below 13 per cent mainly on lower base a year ago.
BJP threatens stir against 15 percent quota for Muslims
Sunday, July 04, 2010 10:06:15 PM by IANS ( Leave a comment )
Addressing a massive convention of backward classes, organised by the state unit of the party at the Bangalore Palace grounds here, Gadkari said the report smacked of vote bank politics of the Congress.
"The report deserves to be thrown into the dustbin as its recommendations will only further divide the people and deny the backward classes their right to education and jobs," Gadkari asserted.
The report, which was submitted to the prime minister May 22, 2007, also recommended the inclusion of Muslims and Christian Dalits in the Scheduled Caste (SC) list.
The National Commission on Religious and Linguistic Minorities was headed by former chief justice of India and Law Commission member Tahir Mahmood.
Terming the report as a curse on India's pluralistic society, Gadkari said one of its recommendation were to reserve 8.4 percent out of the existing 27 percent OBC quota for minorities.
"If the 27 percent quota for OBCs is diluted, what happens to social justice for the deprived sections of society?" Gadkari asked, drawing applause from about 5,000 people who participated in the convention.
The commission was set up by the first UPA government in 2005 to suggest the criterion for identifying the socially and economically backward among religious and linguistic minorities.
Reiterating Gadkari's stand on the report, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said the party would not allow the UPA government to rob the OBCs of their legitimate right to 27 percent quota for jobs in government services and seats in educational institutions.
"Even Jawaharlal Nehru opposed reservation to converted SCs and Scheduled Tribes (STs)," Chouhan recalled, addressing the convention.
Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa declared that his government would allocate Rs.1,000 crore for the welfare of the backward classes in the next fiscal's budget as against Rs.640 crore allotted in this fiscal's budget.
Islam, Christianity alien, so cannot get quota: BJP
Friday, March 26, 2010 7:21:30 PM by IANS ( Comments )
At a press conference here, BJP's newly-appointed spokesperson Ramnath Kovind called for scrapping of the Ranganath Misra commission report that recommends 15 percent quota in government jobs for socially and economically backward sections among religious and linguistic minorities in India.The National Commission on Religious and Linguistic Minorities, headed by Justice Ranganath Misra, former chief justice of India, has in its report also recommended inclusion of Muslim and Christian converts as Scheduled Castes and given a quota to that category.
"No, that is not possible," said Kovind. "Including Muslims and Christians in the Scheduled Castes category will be unconstitutional."
Asked how Sikh Dalits were enjoying the quota privilege in the same category, Kovind said: "Islam and Christianity are alien to the nation."
He said that "it is very well known" that convert Dalit Christians and Muslims get better education in convent schools.
"The educational level of Scheduled Caste children remains much lower than that of convert Dalits and Muslims. The children of converts will grab major share of reservation in government jobs. They would become eligible to contest elections on seats reserved for Scheduled Castes. This would encourage conversion and fatally destroy the fabric of Indian society," he said.
"The Misra commission report should be scrapped because (its recommendations) will jeopardise the interests of Scheduled Castes," he said.
The Misra panel report, which was tabled in parliament Dec 18, 2009, has defined religious and linguistic minorities as backward classes and recommended 15 percent reservation for all minorities in jobs, education and welfare schemes.
Of India's 1.2 billion population, Muslims form the largest minority at close to 14 percent, followed by Christians at 2.3 percent, Sikhs at 1.9 percent, Buddhists at 0.8 percent, Jains at 0.4 percent and others including Parsis at 0.6 percent.
"Within the recommended 15 percent earmarked seats in institutions shall be 10 percent for the Muslims and the remaining 5 percent for the other minorities," the report had suggested.
The recommendations have triggered a row with Hindu parties severely opposing it. The government itself is doubtful about the implementation of the recommendations.
However, the Supreme Court in a ruling Thursday gave legitimacy to minority reservation by allowing four percent quota in jobs for backward Muslims in Andhra Pradesh. This could give a push to the Congress to go ahead with implementing the Ranganath Misra report recommendations.
10 percent quota for Muslims recommended (Lead)
Friday, December 18, 2009 8:36:06 PM by IANS ( Leave a comment )
The report by the National Commission on Religious and Linguistic Minorities, headed by Justice Ranganath Mishra, former chief justice of India, has defined religious and linguistic minorities as backward classes and recommended 15 percent reservation for all minorities in jobs, education and welfare schemes. The panel was constituted in October 2004.Stressing that education was the "most important requirement for improving the socio-economic status of backward sections among religious minorities", the report says that literacy levels of Muslims and Buddhists were low and next to Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST).
"Educational levels of religious minorities vary considerably from one community to the other. While educational level of Jains, Christians and Parsis is higher, that of Muslims and Buddhists is low and is next to SC/ST," according to the 449-page document in two volumes.
Of India's 1.2 billion population, Muslims are the largest minority at 14 percent followed by Christians at 2.3 percent, Sikhs at 1.9 percent, Buddhists at 0.8 percent, Jains at 0.4 percent and others including Parsis at 0.6 percent.
Pointing out that the minority intake in minority educational institutions has been restricted to about 50 percent only, the commission "strongly" recommends that "at least 15 percent seats in all non-minority educational institutions should be earmarked by law for the minorities".
"Within the recommended 15 percent earmarked seats in institutions shall be 10 percent for the Muslims and the remaining 5 percent for the other minorities," it says.
The report falls short of recommending minority status to the Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi, but suggests such institutes should be "legally given a special responsibility to promote education at all levels to Muslim students by taking all possible steps for this purpose".
The report says Idnian minorities - "especially the Muslims - are very much under-represented, and sometimes wholly unrepresented", in government jobs.
"They should be regarded as 'socially and educationally' backward in this respect within the meaning of that term as used in the constitution," said the report.
It mentions that the commission was "guided by the constitutional provisions and the goals that the constitution has set for the country" in reviewing the status of socially and economically backward" communities.
Among other majors it recommends 15 percent of posts in all cadres and grades under the central and state governments should be earmarked for minorities and 10 percent of that should be reserved for Muslims, which form the largest — 73 percent — share of the minority population in India.
"The remaining five percent (should be reserved) for the other minorities," it says.
"In no case shall any seat within the recommended 15 percent go to the majority community," it emphasizes.
Recommending delinking of Scheduled Caste status from religion and abrogation of the 1950 Scheduled Caste Order which "excludes Muslims, Christians, Jains and Parsis from the SC net," the report favours Scheduled Caste status for Dalits in all religions.
The delay in tabling the report had figured figured prominently in parliament since it was presented in May 2007.
It was, before being tabled in the Lok Sabha by Minority Affairs Minster Salman Khurshid, leaked to the media.
Many parties, including the Samajwadi Party, the Rashtriya Janata Dal, were demanding that the report be tabled and its recommendations implemented. The main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been accusing the government of appeasing minorities for "vote bank politics".
Move to encourage entrepreneurship among minorities
Thursday, July 08, 2010 5:47:06 PM by IANS ( Leave a comment )
The capital of the National Minorities Development Finance Corporation (NMDFC) has been raised to Rs.1,500 crore from Rs.1,000 crore, Minister of Information and Broadcasting Ambika Soni told reporters here, after the cabinet took the decision.In the increased capital, the share of central government will be be Rs.975 crore, of state governments Rs.390 crore and of individuals and institutions Rs.135 crore.
The NMDFC is a state-controlled non-profit company and provides financial assistance to people from the minority communities below the poverty line to encourage employment among them.
The hike in the share capital share of the corporation comes in the backdrop of the government's initiatives for economic development of the minorities after the recommendations of the Sachar Committee that highlighted the backwardness of Muslims and other minorities in India.
"The equity contribution from the central government together with contribution from state governments and individuals and institutions and also the recovery of loans from beneficiaries will be spent for providing term loans and micro finance through state channelising agencies (SCAs) and for providing micro finance through NGOs," the minister said.
The minority affairs ministry said the government was striving to provide minorities better credit facilities and financial assistance.
India is home to the third largest Muslim population in the world.
Of the country's 1.2 billion population, Muslims are the largest minority at 14 percent followed by Christians at 2.3 percent, Sikhs at 1.9 percent, Buddhists at 0.8 percent, Jains at 0.4 percent and others, including Parsis, at 0.6 percent.
Government to implement more minority welfare schemes
Wednesday, June 09, 2010 9:36:43 PM by IANS ( Comments )
New Delhi, June 9 (IANS) The central government Wednesday said it would implement four more schemes for the welfare of minorities this financial year after an allocation of Rs.11 crore was made in the budget of 2010-11 for the new plans.These include strengthening of the state waqf boards, interest subsidy on educational loans for overseas studies, promotional activities for linguistic minorities, and a scheme for containing population decline of small minority community.
Waqf boards are panels that look after Muslim property.
"With this new clutch of schemes, the total number of schemes of the Ministry of Minority Affairs will soar to 16," a ministry official said.
The strengthening of the waqf boards scheme will be centrally sponsored.
Mandal Commission
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The Mandal Commission was established in India in 1979 by the Janata Party government under Prime Minister Morarji Desai with a mandate to "identify the socially or educationally backward."[1] It was headed by Indian parliamentarian Bindheshwari Prasad Mandal to consider the question of seat reservations and quotas for people to redress caste discrimination, and used eleven social, economic, and educational indicators to determine backwardness. In 1980, the commission's report affirmed the affirmative action practice under Indian law whereby members of lower castes (known as Other Backward Classes (OBC) and Scheduled Castes and Tribes) were given exclusive access to a certain portion of government jobs and slots in public universities, and recommended changes to these quotas, increasing them by 27% to 49.5%.
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