Should there be reservation for minorities in IITs & IIMs?
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- Date: 26 Nov 2005 19:34:06 -0800
Should there be reservation for minorities in IITs & IIMs?
Tahir Mahmood
The State has an obligation to ensure a sizable presence of minorities
in its institutions of professional and vocational learning.
The UN Declaration on Rights of Minorities 1992 mandates the States to
"ensure that persons belonging to minorities may exercise fully and
effectively all their human rights." The Universal Declaration of Human
Rights 1948 recognises the right to education as a basic human right.
In India, the Constitutional provision on equality of citizens
clarifies that this requirement cannot "prevent the State from making
any special provision for the advancement of any socially and
educationally backward class of citizens."
A Directive Principle of the Constitution clearly says that the State
"shall promote with special care the educational and economic interests
of the weaker sections of the people."
Both these provisions of the Constitution refer to Scheduled Castes and
Tribes but they by no means restrict the ambit of "backward classes"
and "weaker sections."
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