How can the issue of Social backwardness be addressed?
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After India achieved independence, affirmative action started for the “Depressed Classes” or the Scheduled Castes and Tribes providing benefits to the most backward and socially ostracised of India’s communities. However, there were no benefits or even a list of the country’s other backward classes, which although not as politically and socially backward as the ST/SCs, but were still marginalised in society, and behind forwarding castes in fields of education, employment and economic development. To address this problem, the country’s first Backward Classes Commissionwas set up headed by Kaka Kalelkar in 1953. This was also called the Kalelkar Commission. In 1955, the commission submitted its report which stated that there were 2399 backward groups in India out of which 837 were ‘most backward’ and the major evidence of backwardness cited was caste. However, the Union Government, in its pursuit of ultimately creating a casteless society, rejected its recommendations.
Explanation:
Social backwardness is not unsurmountable. Factors responsible for determining social backwardness change with changes in the economic structure. The process, however, is not automatic. It needs to be facilitated by interventions from within and outside the political system. The policy of reservation is one such intervention which may provide temporary respite to the deprived sections. But it has only a limited potential for bringing about such change, and that too with the support of other socio-political forces.
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