Jat reservation how to meet yet more demands
The Jat threat to lay siege to Parliament has been postponed by 15 days, not abandoned, thanks to a promise by the Haryana chief minister to Jat leaders that the process of extending reservation to the community would begin soon. The Patels of Gujarat, another powerful agrarian community, have also been agitating for reservations. These demands stems from two kinds of failure, one developmental, the other, political. As the share of services and industry in the economy goes up and that of agriculture goes down, communities whose prosperity and social dominance derived from landholding see their fortunes decline, in relation to those of other communities that have obtained a relatively larger presence in the modern and faster-growing sectors of the economy. Failure to produce enough jobs to accommodate the aspirations of rural youth to move into urban jobs breeds frustration, especially as the policy of affirmative action secures jobs and the educational attainment needed to get those jobs for small sections of the subaltern. Investing in infrastructure, promoting entrepreneurship and efficient financial mediation while maintaining macroeconomic stability in a globalising world is the way to create jobs. India is groping its way to this end. Politics has failed by presenting reservations as a panacea and by patronising absenteeism and rampant inefficiency and fraud in the educational apparatus. Addressing these two failures is the long-term solution to the growing queue of communities seeking statutory reservation in jobs and higher education. This will take time and agitators have to be dealt with now, with a pragmatic mix of firmness, fairness and flexibility.
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