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By Chuppala Nagesh Bhushan How India's bureaucrats turned a promise to count caste into a masterclass in quiet sabotage IN MAY 2010 India's ruling Congress party did something it had resisted for decades: it agreed, under pressure from campaigners, to count caste in the national census. Newspapers hailed it as a breakthrough. Five years later the data had vanished into a bureaucratic fog, officially declared too messy to publish. No minister ever said no. No law was repealed. The count simply disappeared, one procedural memo at a time. This is the pattern that Trina Vityatil, a sociologist, calls "bureaucratic deflection" : the art of saying yes in public while making sure, in private, that nothing changes. Rather than refuse a reform outright—an act that invites scrutiny and blame—bureaucracies bury it in paperwork, ambiguity and administrative drift. The reform survives on paper. It dies in practice. India's aborted caste census is as clean an example of t...

 By Chuppala Nagesh Bhushan The Mandal Commission's report contained 40 specific recommendations aimed at the upliftment of Other Backward Classes (OBCs). Out of these 40, only two primary recommendations have been implemented (27% job reservations in 1993 and higher education reservations in 2008), while 38 remain non-implemented or partially pending. [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ] The 40 recommendations are spread across Chapter XIII of the report and are structurally divided into five main categories : [ 1 , 2 ] 💼 1. Public Employment and Services (Paras 13.2 to 13.17) 27% Quota: Reserving 27% of all jobs in Central Government services for OBC candidates. Promotions Quota: Reserving 27% of seats for promotions across all levels of public service. 3-Year Carry Forward: Carrying over unfilled reserved posts for up to three years before releasing them. Age Relaxation: Offering age limit relaxations for OBC candidates on par with SC...

MOHAN GURUSWAMY: . By ruling that the Right to Privacy is a fundamental right the nine judge bench of the Supreme Court has set the stage for a three judge bench of the Supreme Court to decide on the validity of Aadhaar. Aadhaar has been challenged by a clutch of twenty-one petitions, starting with the first one filed in 2012 by Justice KS Puttaswamy (retd.) of the Karnataka High Court contending that collection of biometric data and linking it to various activities of citizens threatened their right to privacy. The 91-year-old retired judge will now have his day in court as will those twenty others.  By doing so they have now placed under threat the slew of administrative reforms that were being contemplated using the Aadhaar platform. The choice of the name Aadhaar because is envisaged to be the basis of a transparent new way of governance and compliance. While the provocation was Aadhaar, the issue before the Supreme Court was a much larger one and related to the fundamental ch...

(August 25 --- On the Occasion of B.P. Mandal's Birthday) T.Chiranjeevulu IAS (Retired), Founder & President   BCIF(BC Intellectuals Forum) When we speak about social justice, equal opportunities, and empowerment of backward classes in India, the name  B.P. Mandal  comes to mind with great respect. Bindeshwari Prasad Mandal was not merely a political leader; he was a guide who studied inequalities in Indian society and showed the path toward constitutional opportunities for backward classes through a scientific approach. The  Second Backward Classes Commission  under his chairmanship, popularly known as the  Mandal Commission , stands as a landmark in India's social justice history. Mandal's Life B.P. Mandal was born on August 25, 1918, in Bihar. Entering public life and rising as a political leader, he served as  Chief Minister of Bihar in 1968 . However, what granted him a permanent place in history was his work on the socio-educational a...