RAJ KRISHNA AND SNEHIL
CHANAKYA NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY, PATNA
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1. INTRODUCTION
Reservation in general term implies to an act of withholding, reserving or keeping back some of the seats for the upliftment in the status and standard of living of socially and educationally backward sections of the society. Reservation in Indian context can be defined as a form of affirmative action taken by the government whereby a percentage of seats are reserved in the public sector units, union and state civil services, union and state government departments and in all public and private educational institutions, except in the religious/ linguistic minority educational institutions, for the socially and educationally backward communities and the Scheduled Castes and Tribes who are inadequately represented in these services and institutions.