ЁЯЪи MaharashtraтАЩs AMRUT Drone Mission: Upliftment for Whom, Exactly?
A government scheme branded as empowerment for EWS- тАЬEconomically Weaker SectionsтАЭ but look closer.
The AMRUT Drone Mission registration form asks applicants to select their caste from a list that includes Brahmin, Baniya, Patidar, Marwadi, ThakurтАж and conspicuously excludes SC, ST, and OBC communities entirely.
The schemeтАЩs own eligibility criteria define EWS as family income below тВ╣8 lakhs per annum, explicitly applies only to the General/Upper Caste category, legally excluding SC/ST/OBC applicants who have their own separate reservation framework.
So Maharashtra has designed a futuristic, @DGCAIndia approved, publicly funded drone training program that funnels opportunity to economically weaker upper castes тАФ while communities that have faced centuries of systemic exclusion from education and livelihoods are shown the door.
SC/ST/OBC youth deserve equal access to emerging technologies and future livelihoods not a scheme architected to keep the skies upper-caste. We strongly condemn this decision to exclude majority of Youths, and @Dev_Fadnavis should immediately allow SCs, STs & OBC Youths to join the training program.
#AMRUT #DroneMission #Maharashtra #CasteDiscrimination #Dalit #Adivasi #SocialJustice #OBC #GenZCockroach
Reservations policy is NOT an economic alleviation policy but is a constitutional remedy against historical caste exclusion, lack of representation and caste discrimination!
The Manusmriti denied equal social and political rights to Shudras and Ati-Shudras. The founding fathers of India corrected this historical wrong and centuries of exclusion by giving proportional representation to SCs and STs in public services and educational institutions, and later to OBCs in educational institutions.
Methodically, both Executive and Judicial coercion is being used to ambush the faithful intent of affirmative action in the form of reservation and the reality of caste discrimination, and convert it into a poverty alleviation scheme!
Upward mobility does not erase the caste identity of an individual!
If the upward economic mobility of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes has indeed dismantled caste-based discrimination against them, how does would one explain the reproduction of caste discrimination, continued prejudices and abuse against high-ranking SC and ST officers in bureaucracy and civil services, academicians, and political leaders!?
Did upward economic mobility spare the former CJI from enduring casteist abuse, the shoe-hurling incident and everyday casteist comments online?
Did upward economic mobility IPS officer Y. Puran Kumar from caste-based harassment and discrimination within the police and bureaucratic system, which forced him to take his own life?
Is it not true that SC and ST civil servants receive weaker APAR/ACR evaluations, fewer plum postings, and slower promotions due to informal caste networks and favouritism in bureaucracy?
How does one explain the housing discrimination against SC and ST professionals in metropolitan cities or why IIT/IIM students from the reserved category mocked over reservation and assumed to be incompetent? Or, how the curse of caste and caste discrimination is rampant in the Indian diaspora?
Who has given the right to the Executive and Judiciary to dismantle and redefine caste-based reservation policy?
Who has given the right to the Executive and Judiciary to convert a social justice and representation policy to a economic alleviation policy?
The irony of so-called meritorious MF.
- Rajiv Narayan Mishra: Brahmin
- Subhas Prakash Mishra: Brahmin
- Vishal Dubey: Brahmin
- Amarjit Sharma: Brahmin
- Vivek Upadhyay: Brahmin
- Sandeep Pandey: Brahmin
- Sunil Raghuwanshi: Thakur
Imagine topping the exam by stealing the question papers and then abusing reservations. ЁЯШн
Ironically these are the same people who call reservation a merit k!ller, abuse reservation, and even insult candidates who come through reservation.
@KirenRijiju , @RamdasAthawale Supreme Court is continuously trying to dilute SCST atrocity act.recent judgement is misinterpretation of SCST atrocity act & damaging original purpose of law to protect dignity of SCST community. Please take cognizance & make law more stronger