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Absence of data

The court has rightly not stayed the portion of the Act regarding reservation for SCs and STs. It is debatable whether a similar order should have been granted to OBCs in the absence of adequate data and other important issues. Though reservation for OBCs is desirable, it has only led to political upliftment and individual upliftment, not to any social upliftment in large measure or national upliftment. Most of the OBCs have only sought greener pastures abroad. It may well be argued that when reservation can be made for NRIs, why not for OBCs?

N.G.R. Prasad,
Chennai

Not only is the data furnished by the government old, there is no conclusive information on how the quota system has fared so far. Some important policy decisions need to be taken on issues such as whether the children and grandchildren of OBCs who have enjoyed the benefit of reservation over the last 50 years should continue to remain OBCs.

S. Santhanakrishnan,
Bangalore

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