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Inconsistency of Score-Elevated Reserve Policy for Indian Affirmative Action

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  • Orhan Aygn
  • Bertan Turhan

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India has enacted an intricate affirmative action program through a reservation system since the 1950s. Notably, in 2008, a historic judgment by the Supreme Court of India (SCI) in the case of Ashoka Kumar Thakur vs. Union of India mandated a 27 percent reservation to the Other Backward Classes (OBC). The SCI's ruling suggested implementing the OBC reservation as a soft reserve without defining a procedural framework. The SCI recommended a maximum of 10 points difference between the cutoff scores of the open-category and OBC positions. We show that this directive conflicts with India's fundamental Supreme Court mandates on reservation policy. Moreover, we show that the score-elevated reserve policy proposed by S\"onmez and Yenmez (2022) is inconsistent with this directive.

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  • Orhan Aygn & Bertan Turhan, 2023. "Inconsistency of Score-Elevated Reserve Policy for Indian Affirmative Action," Papers 2312.14648, arXiv.org, revised Dec 2023.
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    1. Tayfun Sönmez & M. Utku Ünver, 2022. "How (not) to reform India's affirmative action policies for its economically weaker segments," Boston College Working Papers in Economics 1054, Boston College Department of Economics.
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