1. ManthanTopic: Increasing Employability
Hampered Growth
A new approach for Enhancing Reservation Policy

2. Current Reservation Policy favors
uni-polar development
 A certain class of people attain more benefits than the more deserving
ones.
 Eg. Out of 10 people from a village ‘X’, 1 gets admitted to IIT in reservation
quota, 2 get into NIT and 7 in regional institutions.
o Again the available facilities to each type of enrolled candidates is different
and vary considerably.
o So there will again be greater benefits to the people with better
environment than the less privileged ones in the reservation quota.
• The gap between them keeps widening and remains unbalanced.
IIT
World-
Class
Resources
Best Jobs
NIT
Better
Basic
Amenities
Mediocre
Jobs
MIT
Less
Privileged
Resources
Ordinary
Jobs
10%
20%
70%
Top-notch
facilities
Mediocre
Least

3. Proposed Policy
 In our proposed policy, the gap between the upper and lower strata
of society is expected to shrink considerably.
 The benefits of the reservation quota are expected to affect and
supplement all the deserving people and simultaneously attempts at
reducing the unbalanced benefits of the respective quota.
 In this prospect, the probability and possibility of ‘Equal
Opportunities’ for the masses increases manifold.
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4. No Substantial Changes in the
Current System
 In the one-shot reservation policy, there won’t be any drastic
changes in the administration of the reservation policy.
 The system curriculum will experience some modifications in the
use of reservation quota, but not in the issuance of caste
certificates.
 This prospect, guides a significant policy to lead to better
employability of the larger chunk of society, without burdening
the Centre or the State with Major changes in the
Administration.
Same
System Different Results

5. One-Shot Reservation Policy
 “Use and throw Analogy”
 The benefits of the Reservation Quota can be derived by the
respective candidate at any level in the lifetime of the stream of
employability.
 The caste certificate can be used for the quota by the candidate
only once, and then the validity for the reservation benefits expire.
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of Society
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Quota at
primary
level
Quota at
Secondary
level
Quota at
Graduation/
Post-
Graduation
Quota at
Employ-
ment level

6. Differentiating Factors:
 Once the reservation quota benefit by a candidate is taken, he gets
ample top-notch facilities far better than the one’s who could not.
 Then that candidate does not need to get reservation as he got
much favorable environment unlike the one’s who could not.
 At the next level, the ones deprived of better amenities will not be
competing with the more privileged ones as their validity in the
reservation quota has been expired. Just one ladder can be used.
 Thus the chances of opportunities for the needy shoots up
considerably and the unbalanced benefits of reservation quota
shoots down significantly.

7. Scalability and Sustainability
 This unique policy perspective can be scaled to other
dimensions of the society apart from Education System.
 The effects, results, growth potential and possibility of
equal opportunities for all can be compared and tested
on any standard time scale; which has a higher
probability of being sustainable.
 Equal Growth Opportunities.

8. Organization, Cost and Impact
 The alteration in the process can begin at the lowest level
and subsequently move towards the higher levels for
implementation.
 The cost to the Centre or the State won’t be significantly
huge; just some aspects to be considered including
maintaining a database for all the certificate holders and the
validity of their one-time use policy.
 This would impact the lower, middle as well as the higher
strata of society and give equal opportunities to all; no extra
privileges entertained.
Higher Middle Lower Equality

9. Other Solutions and Challenges
 Reservation on Economic Basis rather than caste basis.
 Due to high corruption and loop holes, it is very easy to
issue a fake BPL (Below Poverty Line) Certificate, while
issuing the same in case of caste certificate is relatively
difficult.
 Also the Economic Condition of anyone can fluctuate at any
time (Eg. Lottery). So deeming it as a criteria may not be
efficient.