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10-07-2008
goose
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Just want to clarify from you, does receiving applications mean that SC applicants have the requisite cut off marks… guess it is. Good for them!
Although I don’t have the figures, this has been the trend for some years in Karnataka too, many SC students get into engineering/medical colleges with marks falling within the ‘merit’ list.
This blog is a little less about the progress made by SC’s. It is about dalits, the ones that are not able to move in a like manner as the upwardly mobile SC’s. Why is it still 45% marks cut off for certain dalits, is one question?
What motivates us to search for reasons…..why there are dalits (large numbers) who did NOT enter the education system at all. And will not for a long time……….unless these remarkable numbers that you quote, emerge as ‘agents of change’ and channel their energies to change it, with thoughts and actions. - (quoting Anu).