A CRITICAL STUDY ON CASTE BASED RESERVATION POLICY IN INDIA: SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON “EWS QUOTA”

India is a country with unity and integrity in diversity. People of different religion, caste lives in India as brothers and sisters and share common brotherhood. But this relationship is changing day by day because of lots of hurdles in our society. The reason behind these hurdles are- inequality, unequal living standards of citizens of India, different languages, different cultures, different class or caste. The present study involves the influence of these factors upon the society of India. Because of these factors unity and integrity of India faces lots of inequalities and differences in Indian society. In present scenario people of India are divided on the name of caste and religion which also effect their standard of living. A new reservation provision is introduced by government of India which provide reservation on the basis of economic standard of people. By this new provision lots of controversy arise because of the differences in old and new provisions of reservation system. This leaves a scope to resolve this controversy between old and new provisions.