How is the Report and recommendations of the Mandal Commission unfair to some group of educated youths?
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Fake Caste certificates are issued to many less talented boys of the rich and powerful community in the reserved category but the poor candidates fight for seats in the merit category.
Students are not motivated to study hard because lazy students get most of the jobs due to reservation.
Mandal Commission recommended reservation of seats to backward classes of the society but the government reduced reservation only to certain castes.
The Socially and Educationally Backward Class (SEBC) Commission or Mandal Commission – as it is known, was instituted during the rule of Janata Party, under Prime Minister Morarji Desai, in 1979. The Commission was led by a parliamentarian – B. P. Mandal to study and identify the ‘socially and educationally backward classes’ in our country. As a result of recommendations of this Commission, the total percentage of reservation went up to 49.5%.
The lower criteria required for such ‘backward class’ in education and government jobs, snatched away opportunities from more qualified, so-called ‘upper class youth’ - many of whom are financially backward. It showed in quality of work throughout government institutions. Soon a new trend of ‘changing caste’ among the ‘upper caste’ came about, to meet and make use of reservation clauses. This effected the genuinely under-privileged.