{"id":4472,"date":"2016-05-17T14:40:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T09:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teekhapan.wordpress.com\/?p=4472"},"modified":"2016-05-17T14:40:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T09:10:26","slug":"why-reservations-are-not-a-solution-to-the-job-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vivekkaul.com\/2016\/05\/17\/why-reservations-are-not-a-solution-to-the-job-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Reservations Are Not a Solution to the Job Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"
Last week, the government of Haryana notified the the Haryana Backward Classes (Reservation in Services and Admission in Educational Institutions) Act, 2016.<\/p>\n
The Act provides 10 percent reservation to Jats, Jat Sikhs, Rors, Bishnois, Tyagis and Muslim Jats, in Class III and Class IV government jobs. It also provides a 6% reservation in Class I and Class II jobs to the castes mentioned above. Further, the Act provides a 10% reservation to these castes for admission into educational institutes.<\/p>\n
In February, earlier this year, Jats had gone on an agitation, resorted to violence and destroyed public property across Haryana, to demand reservation in government jobs. The Parliamentary forces had to be called in order to control the mess that followed.<\/p>\n
But the point is will this reservation in government jobs help the Jats? Or to ask a more speciic question, does reservation really help these days?<\/p>\n
Take a look at the following table. It shows the number of people employed by the government of Haryana over the years. Honestly, when I started writing this column, I was apprehensive that I would be able to find such data. Nevertheless, I did. The data is two years old. If it was more recent, the analysis would have been a little more definitive.<\/p>\n