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Will upper caste quota worsen the social profile of govt and teaching jobs?

Representation of SCs, STs and OBCs in top-level jobs is already lower than their reserved share

Quota for general category poor may benefit 51.5 million households
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Abhishek Waghmare New Delhi
At the end of its term, the current Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government amended the Constitution to make room for 10 per cent reservation in government jobs and higher education for the “poor” in the general category. 

While there was little political opposition to this move, constitutional experts did criticise it on principle, saying that the genesis of reservations in India was based on historical injustice, and not relative backwardness or under-development of communities or groups. 

But how are government jobs, including those of teachers, being filled up as of today? 

To get a rough answer to this

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