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Reservation
Hatao Andolan

A national citizens’ movement

Merit
not
quota.

We campaign for a merit-based, economically just India — and we do it with documents, data and law, not slogans. Read the record. Then add your name to it.

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Latest · Parliamentary committee tables report recommending a decadal quota auditChapters launch in three more districtsSubmission filed with the parliamentary panelParliamentary committee tables report recommending a decadal quota auditChapters launch in three more districtsSubmission filed with the parliamentary panel

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Myth vs Fact

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Myth

“Reservation exists to eradicate poverty.”

Fact

It was designed as a representation tool — to break monopolies on power created by social exclusion. Poverty alleviation is a separate policy question, and treating the two as the same is how both end up badly measured.

Source · 3 documents

Myth

“Quotas let unqualified people become doctors and engineers.”

Fact

Entry thresholds differ; qualifying standards do not. Every candidate sits the same university examinations and training protocols to graduate or hold office. Conflating entry with exit is the most common error in this debate.

Source · 4 documents

Myth

“The system already reaches the most disadvantaged.”

Fact

Available data shows heavy concentration of benefit within a comparatively established layer of each category. Without a uniform exit rule, first-generation learners and the rural poor of the same communities are crowded out.

Source · 6 documents

Voices

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I cleared the exam twice and still watched the seat go elsewhere. I do not want sympathy — I want the data made public.

ANONYMOUS · PUNE, MH

Nobody explained the roster to us. I found out how it actually worked from a PDF on this site, three years too late.

R. IYER · COIMBATORE, TN

We filed as a group of eleven. Nine departments replied, two refused. Every reply is in the archive for anyone to use.

S. MEENA · JAIPUR, RJ

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