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Quota policy

Sir, — This is with reference to the article `A quota-driven polity' by Neera Chandhoke (Feb 18.)

People cannot be expected to benefit from the quota policy as long as they are unaware of what real benefits it has for them. When the socially backward do not have access to the minimum facilities of education, water, house and transport, it seems highly illogical to expect them to know and use the potentials of reservation to their maximum benefit.

In the past 50 years we have seen only a handful of socially backward classes being benefited. It takes 20 years for someone to get educationally qualified for a government job, where one stays for around 30 years. Now after 50 years of Independence when the backward cannot be expected to maintain their share (quota) of representation in government jobs, in the absence of support (and continuance) from quota policy (when an equilibrium should have been reached in this share of representation), it is beyond doubt the Government policies to make the socially backward uniformly well educated have failed.

Prabhat Kumar Padhi,

Bhubaneswar, Orissa

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