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| OBC quota candidates fail toget job |
| It was a watershed decision empowering the backward classes.
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| INDIA
, 27-January-2007
2:40:34 AM |
| But even a decade after the Mandal Commission's recommendations reserving jobs for OBCs in government service came into effect, the 27 per cent quota has still not been fully met.
In 1994, a year after OBC reservations came into effect, Anil Kumar, a backward class candidate from Bihar, secured the 548th rank in the civil services examination.
There were 705 vacancies that year and Kumar hoped to make it easily. But he wasn't allotted a service.
After waiting for over a year, he filed a petition and the government replied saying that all 173 OBC vacancies had been filled and he couldn't be accommodated.
"I was told that the OBC people from the general category had moved to the OBC list, so there were no more seats left for us," said Kumar.
So what did go wrong in Anil Kumar's case?
In 1994, 31 OBC candidates had cleared the civil services exam in the general merit category. But many of them for want of better services availed of a service choice through the OBC quota.
This pushed down those who were already part of the OBC quota list, which resulted in many like Kumar not being allotted any service at all.
SC judgement
Not only did this go against the very principle of reservations as enshrined in the Constitution, there were several judgements on this issue by the Supreme Court.
The latest being in 2006, which said, "If a reserved category candidate recommended by the Commission without resorting to relaxed standards (i.e. on merit) did not get his preference 'say IAS' in the open category.
"For that he may opt for a preference from the reserved category. Such preference shall not be adjusted against the vacancies for the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes."
Ground reality
But data from the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) clearly shows that this is far from what happens in reality.
In 1994, 705 candidates were selected by the UPSC
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