Short Essay on the Reservation in Education – Globalization has increased the premium associated with a well-educated workforce, and India stands to lose a great deal if the quality of its labour force does not make the cut.
Democracy is the rule of equality where all persons are treated as equal whether they belong to the majority or minority. It has been argued that the fact that the minorities are being treated as equals and that too through a fundamental right and right should satisfy and protects them and do not violate their rights in any sense.
No doubt, democracy is ultimately supposed to be the rule of the majority but at the same time there have to be inbuilt safeguards to ensure that a rule of the majority does not become tyranny by the majority. It is in this context that the rights of minorities acquire crucial significance.
Image Source: i.ytimg.com
ADVERTISEMENTS:
The decision to reserve certain seats in India’s higher education institutions for “other backward classes” is to provide importance as well significance to the minority’s existence. The Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Act, 2006 received the assent of the President on 3-1-2007.
The Act provides for the reservation in admission of the students belonging to the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and the Other Backward Classes of citizens, to certain Central Educational Institutions established, maintained or aided by the Central Government. The Act paves the way to start implementing the policy of reservations from the academic session of 2007.
The provision of the Act, inter-alia will not apply to (i) a Central Educational Institutions established in the tribal areas referred to in the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution; (ii) the institutions of excellence, research institutions, institutions of national and strategic importance specified in the Schedule to this Act; and (iii) the Minority Educational Institutions referred to in clause (1) of article 30 of the Constitution.