LEGALST 153 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3/3: Scheduled Castes And Scheduled Tribes, Equa, Secularism
2 Mar 2017
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Galanter: pursuing equality in the land of hierarchy. India embraced equality as a cardinal value against background of many clear inequalities: as a result: compensatory discrimination. Needed assurance of personal fairness, guarantee against persistence of discrimination. Beneficial results: integration, more equitable distribution, etc: anti-discrimination theme and general welfare theme, permits departure from formal equality for favoring specific groups, three major classes benefiting from compensatory discrimination. Tribal culture, physical isolation, many are residents of specially protected areas. Varying greatly, consists mostly of lower castes that are not as low as. About 60 million: for the most part, all members of a given group are given the benefits of a scheme. Some supplemental schemes require you to fall below an income ceiling to be eligible: three basic types of preferences. Protect the backward classes from being exploited. Most agree that disadvantaged should be helped, but disagree on who is disadvantaged/what help to give/how much of it give.
