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The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes comprise about 16.6% and 8.6%, respectively, of India's population (according to the 2011 census). [10][11] The Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950 lists 1,108 castes across 28 states in its First Schedule, [12] and the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950 lists 744 tribes across 22 ...
The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act (POA), 1989 was thus passed on 11 September 1989. The Act was notified in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3 (ii), dated 29 January 1990 (notification No. S.O. 106 (E)) and came into force on 30 January 1990. The rules were notified on 31 March 1995.
Resident doctors from all over India joined the protests crippling the health infrastructure of a number of cities. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The government took stern measures to counter the protesting doctors by serving them with suspension letters and asking them to vacate the hostels to make way for newly recruited doctors.
Reservation is a system of affirmative action in India created during the British rule.Based on provisions in the Indian Constitution, it allows the Union Government and the States and Territories of India to set a percentage of reserved quotas or seats, in higher education admissions, employment, political bodies, etc., for "socially and economically backward citizens".
Creamy layer is a term used in Indian reservation system to refer to some members of a backward class who are highly advanced socially as well as economically and educationally. They constitute the forward section of that particular backward class – as forward as any other forward class member. [1]
In 1971, The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) government increased reservation for BC from 25% to 31% and the reservation for Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) from 16% to 18%. Karunanidhi established a separate Ministry for the Welfare of the backward class during the DMK's rule from 1971 to 1976, the first such in the country. [ 10 ]
Caste system in India. Mahatma Gandhi visiting Madras (now Chennai) in 1933 on an India-wide tour for Dalit (he used Harijan) causes. His writings, and speeches during such tours, discussed the discriminated-against castes of India. The caste system in India is the paradigmatic ethnographic instance of social classification based on castes.
In India, a number of political positions and university posts are held for specific groups of the population, including Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST), and women in some cases. There are reserved constituencies in both Parliamentary and State Assembly elections. Scheduled Castes (usually abbreviated as SC), and Scheduled ...