Now All The Money Has Gone - Jatts Are Now, Officially, A Backward Class

[sweetshera]

The Punjab Cabinet approved the Backward Class (BC) status for the Jatt Sikhs of the State on 5 March 2014. With this, Jatt Sikhs will be the 70th community to be included in the category.

The grant of Backward Class status to the Jatt Sikhs will enable them to get reservation in government jobs. Jatt Sikhs of Punjab had been left out of the Indian Cabinet’s decision because the Punjab government had failed to bring the community in the State Backwards Class list.

A few days earlier, the Indian Cabinet decided to include the Jat community in the central list of Other Backward Classes in nine States: Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Uttarakhand, Delhi, Haryana and Rajasthan.

The latest move by the Punjab Cabinet will now facilitate a proclamation by the Government of India that Jatt Sikhs are now, nationally, a Backward Class.

[JasSinghKhalsa]

I believe Prakash Chand Badal, Amanarinder Singh Gill, Navjot Singh Sidhu, KPS Gill etc. are all Jatts.

[Singh559]

Either this is a cheap move by people who proclaim to be jatts to ensure jatts stay in offices (a power play). Or it's central toying with a community's psyche.

[singh135]

in only a couple of generations the hardworking honest reputation of punjabs farmers is now the bhangra/drinking/drug taking 'backward' cohort.

We talk about culture...what is this culture to leave children....

[TurbanGuyz]

just for a while...Think should we discuss this article on this forum?? Duze tizze din dekhda muh chake caste da issue leke a jande... .....

[S1ngh]

There should be no quota system. This old age division system is toxic for humanity.

I have seen border line failing student getting admission while high score were getting denied because first preference is for quota ppl.

[ekgurjaskhalsa]

There should be no quota system. This old age division system is toxic for humanity.

I have seen border line failing student getting admission while high score were getting denied because first preference is for quota ppl.

On the other hand, quota system ensures that there is no discrimination against lower or backward caste. Caste System is a plague. If there is no quota system, Will anyone hire a schedule caste candidate to a reputable post or give admission to such students? What are good alternative to ensure that these people are not discriminated against?

[TurbanGuyz]

On the other hand, quota system ensures that there is no discrimination against lower or backward caste. Caste System is a plague. If there is no quota system, Will anyone hire a schedule caste candidate to a reputable post or give admission to such students? What are good alternative to ensure that these people are not discriminated against?

The only one way if we prove that we sikhs don't believe in Hindu rituals and capable of proving that sikhs are in minority class as same as like jainism. The reason is we sikhs don't

come together to tackle with problems. As a sikh we see another sikh in public whether in western or eastern world, we start asking his/her caste and background.,,..

Now this person "sweetshera" what is trying to prove I really don't know. Now we are crying on this forum because Jatts have been thrown into backward class...what a cheap level of hypocrisy..

There should be no quota system. This old age division system is toxic for humanity.

I have seen border line failing student getting admission while high score were getting denied because first preference is for quota ppl.

do you know how quota system is done in india? do you know??

[TurbanGuyz]

The only one way if we prove that we sikhs don't believe in Hindu rituals and capable of proving that sikhs are in minority class as same as like jainism. The reason is we sikhs don't

come together to tackle with problems. As a sikh we see another sikh in public whether in western or eastern world, we start asking his/her caste and background.,,..

Now this person "sweetshera" what is trying to prove I really don't know. Now we are crying on this forum because Jatts have been thrown into backward class...what a cheap level of hypocrisy..

do you know how quota system is done in india? do you know??

[West London Singh]

This is the upside down topsy turvy world which is India.

Getting 'backward class' status is like winning the lottery.

Get it, and your son and daughter is guaranteed a job.

Get it, and your son and daughter is guaranteed a university place.

Get it, and your son and daughter only needs to attain a lower grade in order to get a pass in exams.

Without it, the status quo was that unemployment among jatts, including their graduates, was close to 90%. The urban classes who own the private businesses in Punjab don't give jobs to the jatts because they only give jobs among their own groups and the government civil service jobs were reserved for the backward classes.

That, and that only, is why many jatts were agitating to get the 'status'.

When you live in a corrupt, backward system, the only way to function is in corrupt backward ways.