Very few of us will agree that a caste based reservation policy will yield in an affirmative action for upliftment of the poor sections of the society. However, it has been assumed and has become a reality which has been implemented. So let's accept it for the moment that it will bridge the gap of society by the upliftment of the most backward castes.

Progress is a relative word. so is the need for progress. One community doesn't feel progressed or left behind unless it sees it's fellow community progressing in respect to it's own progress.

A reservation policy, implemented uniformly across all country decides that there are three groups namely SC, ST and OBC along which reservations can be provided. However, which caste will belong to which catagory, will be recommened by states and will be granted group accordingly.

Recent storm in rajasthan is merely a result of one flaw in this reservation policy.

That is, there are various communities eligible for these 3 different groups and all these communities are not at the same level of social, economical or educational backwardness. All communities are devided in to groups on the basis of their social backwardness but with in a group, benefits are decided mainly on educational forwardness of that caste. In every group, major share of benefit of the reservation is taken by only that caste which is most educationally forward among those castes. Thus complete reservation quotas are sweep by only one caste and other castes still starve for reservation.

So is the case here. Gujjars were one of the most educationally forward catagory within OBC until JATs gets included. After JATs inclusion, gujjar benefit went to a minimal. so they want to get at least their share of reservation which they were getting before. Now if they are given ST status, Meenas will meet the gujjar's fate, as after that, all major portion of ST reservation quota will be grabbed by gujjars as they are educationally forward than meenas.

With in ST community, it is meenas which enjoys most major benefits in rajasthan. Other castes in the same group such as bheels have hardly get these benefits as they are again educationally backward than meenas.

This reservation policy will yield the upliftment of only 2 or 3 castes with in a group. rest others will still remains backward.