RESERVATION IN ELECTION

Abstract

Political concerns over economically disadvantaged minority groups are compared to global poverty levels. The state-time variance in reservation in India's state legislative assemblies is used to refute the concept that political reservation is endogenous. This disparity is caused by national rules that require reservations to be updated and implementation delays for altered reservations. This distinction is the outcome of national policies that alter reserves. We discovered that increasing the number of seats granted to Scheduled Tribes considerably reduced poverty in sixteen of India's most populous states between 1960 and 2000. When the percentage of seats assigned to Scheduled Castes was increased, however, there was no variation in the number of poor people. Political reservations for Scheduled Tribes appear to benefit individuals who are just above and well below the poverty line, and they appear to have a greater impact on rural poverty than urban poverty. These initiatives are more likely to alleviate urban poverty.