Question

What is the protective discrimination? Explain.​

Answer 1

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Our society has always been full of inequalities. It was a caste ridden, stratified hierarchical society, and a particular segment of the society had been denied the bare human rights. Their education, wages, living conditions, social status was dictated by the whims of upper strata of society, reducing them to destitution. The economic backwardness brought social awkwardness which consequently made them downtrodden and thus depriving them even of the dignity of life. In a society compartmentalised on caste basis, upper castes controlled the levers of power enabling them to run their whips, prejudicial to the interests of lower segments of the society. Lower castes had to serve the upper castes without having any say and grievance redressal mechanism. This inhumane and barbaric condition perpetuated for centuries, till "we the people" realised the malady impelling the framers of our constitution to think.

Answer 2

Protective discrimination means a privilege or some right in favour of those who had been discriminated and oppressed since ages. It is a well known quote that “IRON CUTS IRON”, hence discrimination counters discrimination. It is evident from history that one sort of discrimination is destructive while the other one is protective and curative in nature.

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