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Poverty doesn’t come in “quotas”

by · December 1, 2006

I have not yet been through the Sachar report and various comments and articles on it but one thing is clear…poverty doesn’t come in quotas…

Do our politicians get it? Of course they do…then why indulge in senseless things like the Sachar Report?

Because poverty may not come in quotas but votes do.

How does the Sachar recommendation propose to deal with the situation where there is only one seat and 3 equally deserving and equally poor applicants – except that two are Muslims and one is Hindu? Ignore the Hindu? and what about the other Muslim applicant – how will that choice be made?

more on this over the weekend…

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3 Responses

  1. B Shantanu says:
    May 13, 2008 at 10:42 am

    One of my loyal readers (Thanks, “Indian”) pointed me in the direction of this recent PTI news-report (emphasis mine):

    Sachar favours Muslims alone, not right: Delhi HC

    “New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday (May 12, ’08) told the Centre the Justice Rajinder Sachar Committee’s report recommends schemes for Muslims and leaves out other minority communities.

    “You are trying to please one community—poverty is the common enemy. You should fight against poverty rather than saying that you would fight against poverty for one community only. This is where the rot lies,” said a two-member bench.

    “You are saying that more money to be spent for one minority community. Should it not cut across the caste and religion? Does the Sachar committee say that facilities are available to other communities?” …

    The court was not satisfied by the Centre’s explanation and said: “does it mean that drinking water facilities are available to the majority community and no person from it live in slums”.

    …The NGO (that had filed the PIL) rejected the Government’s claim and said there was nothing called minority community in the Constitution. “The Constitution of India does not recognise any minority or subordinate segment of Indian society as identifiably separate or a sociological group. They (Muslims) cannot be labelled as a minority in the sense of a subordinate group,” said senior advocate P N Lekhi, who argued for the Rashtriya Mukti Morcha…”

    Hats off to Justice Thakur and Justice Mridul for speaking out loud…

  2. v.c.krishnan says:
    May 13, 2008 at 1:20 pm

    Dear Sir,
    Let all true Bhratiyas stand up and salute these judges. They will not be in the rekoning, after their tenure, for any posts if the sychophants have their way.
    Remember Justice Khanna!
    Regards,
    vck

  3. B Shantanu says:
    November 7, 2008 at 1:26 pm

    Think and comment please:

    Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Thursday assured Muslims that the State Government would give them preference in police jobs.

    “A special officer from Muslim community would be appointed for the police recruitment so that the community people can get more scope in the police department,” the Chief Minister said at a function of the Federation of All Minority Educational Organisation at Haj House here.

    The Government has already appointed an officer from the minority community on MPSC board which is helping to bring the community youth in the mainstream, he said.

    …Deputy Chief Minister RR Patil, who also attended the function, said that Muslims should be given priority in private jobs also.