CASTE-BASED RESERVATION: BACKWARDNESS IN DISGUISE

Abstract

Equality in status and opportunity is promised to all citizens of India by the Constitution through the Preamble. In spite of differences in caste, religion, place of birth and gender, a citizen of any age is entrusted with the same rights and duties as the other. The State tries and gives people who were deprived of their rights in pre-independent India back what they had lost. For instance, the people who belonged to the backward caste. One of the best ways that the state came up with to solve their problem of inequality is the caste-based reservation. This article deals with the meaning, origin, need merits, demerits and etc of the caste-based reservation.