Thursday, January 18, 2007

RESERVATION (Part-2)

Awakening

In 1904, the Board of Revenue obtained from the Collectors a report classifying all employees on the basis of caste in the superior services of the Revenue offices in the Districts. It was found that the ratio of Brahmins to Non-Brahmins was 70:30. The Board instructed the Collectors to arrange for the recruitment of Non-Brahmins in such a way to ensure that public jobs were more fairly distributed to various local castes in proportion to their population. The Board also advised certain Collectors about the desirability of increasing the number of Non-Brahmin Deputy Tahsildars in their districts, if qualified men were available. A list of revenue employees in each district was ordered to be printed annually so that Collectors might ensure that instructions contained in BSO 128(2) were scrupulously observed.
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