With some reservations: Quotas for Jats

On the official website of the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC), there is a telling epistle. Dated February 26, 2014, it’s from a certain A.K. Mangotra, the commission’s member-secretary, to S. Bhargava, a secretary in the Union ministry of social justice & empowerment. Turning down the Centre’s request for including Jats in the central list of Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in nine states, it categorically states that “they are not socially and educationally backward”.

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