Question

Why reservation to SCs and STs?​

Answer 1

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• Reservation is required for SCs and STs in order to give representation to even the backward classes of the country.
• They may not have the required resources,education and contracts to contest and win elections against others.
• Reservations helps our parliament to have representation of all communities.
• Currently,in the Lok sabha,84 seats are reserved for the Scheduled Castes and 47 for Scheduled Tribes. (It was 79 for SC and 41 for ST before 2009 General Elections.)
• In many states, seats in rural(panchayat) and urban (municipalities and corporations) local bodies are now reserved for Other Backward Classes (OBC) as well.
• Similarly, minimum one-third of the seats are reserved in rural and urban local bodies for women candidates.

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