Prelims · 6 Indian Society · 6.12 Social justice and constitutional safeguards

6.12.3 Reservation: Articles 15(4) to 16(4B) and 335, and backward classes commissions (Kalelkar, Mandal, Rohini)

Reservation is the Constitution's main tool of protective discrimination: Articles 15 and 16 enable quotas in education and public jobs for backward classes, SCs, STs and the poor, and backward classes commissions under Article 340 decide who qualifies.

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Key terms

  • reservation
  • protective discrimination
  • Article 15(4)
  • Article 16(4)
  • 16(4A)
  • 16(4B)
  • Article 335
  • 82nd Amendment
  • Article 340
  • Kaka Kalelkar
  • Mandal Commission
  • 27 per cent
  • creamy layer
  • Rohini Commission
  • sub-categorisation
  • EWS
  • 103rd Amendment
  • NCBC
  • 102nd Amendment
  • 105th Amendment
  • horizontal reservation
  • caste census

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