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Sanya Dhingra is an assistant editor with ThePrint. She writes on politics, government and history, and is particularly interested in the history of 19th and early 20th Century British India. She can be reached at: sanya.dhingra@theprint.in Follow her on twitter @DhingraSanya
I can’t really see how many will actually benefit in reality. The bulk government jobs, for instance the recent BBC report on 20 million Indians applying for 100,000 railway jobs, don’t have applicants from family with income greater than 8 lakhs. Similar will be case of other bulk government jobs with exceptions like upsc civil services job.(Which are around 800, so will help around 80 candidates from economically weaker sections.)
10% reservation for such widely defined EWS is akin to grace marks to all, which helps no one in zero-sum game of competition for government jobs.
Der lagi aane mein tumko … Pramod Mahajan used to say, In power, time flies; in opposition, it drags on. Five years ago, the tanks were brimful of political capital. Sensible priorities ought to have been set, saplings that could have borne fruit in five years planted. No need for these last minute initiatives.