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Not the answer

Sir, — The backwardness of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Castes is, no doubt, the fallout of the centuries-old caste system. But reservation can only provide for the financial wellbeing of the backward classes.

The socio-economic status of an individual is a much more complicated issue. Successive governments have not worked out an alternative to reservation. For all political parties, caste groups constitute solid vote banks.

S. Srikant,
Hyderabad

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