Inconsistency of Score-Elevated Reserve Policy for Indian Affirmative Action

Orhan Ayg\"n and Bertan Turhan

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Abstract: 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.

Date: 2023-12, Revised 2023-12
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