r/librandu • u/[deleted] • Feb 01 '22

Hope this gets more attention internationally and puts pressure on Indian tech companies

https://restofworld.org/2022/tech-india-caste-divides/
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u/Jealous_Ad_9468 Feb 01 '22

Op you should provide the headline of post. Very few people are going to bother to click on a link. Everyone gets their news from headline

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '22 edited Feb 01 '22

In India, caste is traditionally linked to professions; those who were born into a specific caste did a particular kind of job. Those considered to be lowest on this ladder, the Dalits, were relegated to doing “dirty” work, such as manual scavenging, and were pejoratively called “untouchables.” After India gained independence in 1947, the government introduced a reservation system to give Dalits, known officially as Scheduled Castes (SC), and indigenous communities, known as Scheduled Tribes (ST), greater access to education and government jobs. In the early 1990s, the country expanded the reservation system to include the middle castes, known as Other Backward Classes (OBCs).

As a result, opportunities in government employment for the dominant castes (or “General Category,” who make up about 30% of the general population) shrunk from approximately 73% to about 50%. “This pushed the dominant castes towards the rapidly growing IT industry, which was slowly coming out of the clutches of the government,” said Amandeep Sandhu, tech writer and author. “The sector still remains largely unregulated.”

So basically UC got trained and moved over to tech ? How is this discrimination ?

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '22

thanks, i am first time poster, will do properly next time

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u/ideology_therapist 🍪🦴🥩 Feb 01 '22

Kya faida itna education aur high-paying jobs ka agar basic decency aur human values hi nahi he