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Why India needs three salary wedges to look beyond reservations to reduce injustices

Why India needs three salary wedges to look beyond reservations to reduce injustices
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Synopsis

Rahul Gandhi's quota cap strategy echoes Indira Gandhi's tactics on quotas from Neerja Chowdhury's book. In 1980, she guided P Shiv Shankar on handling the Mandal Commission report, emphasizing the delicate balance of quotas' impact. India in 2047 aims to move beyond reservations and adopt an abundance mentality focusing on employment and education, shifting from scarcity thinking.

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Indira Gandhi would have been amused by Rahul Gandhi's recent comment at an election rally that Congress will use legislation to breach the 50% quota cap if it's voted into office. Neerja Chowdhury's 2023 book, How Prime Ministers Decide, captures the former PM's nuanced instructions to her law minister P    Shiv Shankar in 1980 on dealing with the Mandal Commission report: 'Aisa Action Taken Report likhiye ki saanp bhi mar jaye aur laathi bhi

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