[ Sajith M ]

If you needed proof that social policy in this country operates quite in isolation of hard economic data, you need to look no further than the NSS data. OBCs — 35.8 % of India’s population and not 52% as the government would make us believe — compare favourably with the General category (36.5% population) on overall consumption figures as well as for individual products and services.
And if you consider the top 20% population in the General and OBC categories, the gap not only narrows down considerably, but in very many products and services consumption is in fact higher than that in the General category, referred to as ‘Others’ in the NSS data.

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