インドの教育における留保制度の現状と課題

Abstract

The Protective Discrimination Policy has been implemented to decrease the gap between the different classes in India, where a stratification gap exists due to the deep rooted age-old caste system. The reservation system based on caste has been implemented in India since the era of colonization, and has been functioning as one of the important tools of Protective Discrimination Policy in India. The primary purpose of this reservation system is to secure the opportunity for backward classes in India, such as Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in the legislative and parliamentary elections, public employment and public education, by reserving seats in proportion to the ratio of their class to the total population. The purpose of this paper is to address the present status and the difficulties of reservation system in education. Firstly, the paper will briefly look at the Protective Discrimination Policy and reservation system. Secondly, the author will look at the one of the most controversial issues of reservation system, reservation for OBCs. Finally, the author will discuss the present status and the difficulties of reservation system in Indian education.