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PROPHE Summary (Prachayani Praphamontripong): The Indian Parliament passed a controversial constitutional amendment forcing private colleges to set up quotas for students with low-caste and disadvantaged backgrounds. The legislation was defended as a response to global demands rather than a political backlash to an earlier Supreme Court's decision, which held that the government could not impose such quotas on private colleges. (See India#7 reported on PROPHE Global News Reports). Against the background of a rigid caste system leaving most Indians toward the bottom, successive governments have applied affirmative action policies to uplift disadvantaged students' conditions in college admission. For the full story, see Agence France Presse, December 23, 2005,
"India Passes Amendment to Reserve College Places for Poor." PROPHE Observation (Daniel C. Levy): Quota policies are not uncommon in stratified societies. The degree of Indian stratification is notorious (and controversial political debates on quotas and private higher education have been reported in PROPHE Global News Reports). Also not uncommonly, however, affirmative action policy is controversial. Policies may have particular effects on private institutions whereas one argument is that such institutions should be freer from government mandate. As in the USA, both the legislature and the court are involved, at times at loggerheads and court dismissal of new legislation can lead an upset legislature to revise its legislation so that it can withstand judicial review.
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