Author: Vijaya Lakshmi Thota
Vijaya Lakshmi Thota
(Vijaya Lakshmi Thota is a columnist. She works with women, farmers and youth on emulative development cconomic models to alleviate poverty at the grassroots level)
Paradoxical Reality of Reservations Generations of reservations for backward classes have prepared the base for Tina Dabi and Kanishak Kataria from the Dalit community to top the highly competitive and prestigious civil services exams. About one-fourth (24 per cent) of our popularly elected House, the Lok Sabha, is filled with Scheduled Caste (84) and Scheduled Tribe (47) members out of 543 seats. Today, the President of India, Smt. Draupadi Murmu, belongs to a tribal community from the state of Odisha. Paradoxically, from the very state of Odisha where our President hails from, a 23-year-old Sarmista Sethi, appointed as a helper-cum-cook…
