Abstract

Social exclusion and social inclusion are two terms most widely used in recent years by all sections of a society, especially the social scientists in their academic discourses. The term social exclusion means the process through which individuals and groups are wholly or partially excluded from full participation in the society in which they live, whereas the term social inclusion encompasses the entire population in the performances of the individual function system. On the other hand, positive discrimination is a process through which some special measures have been taken for the betterment of the marginalized sections of population of a country. Thus, positive discrimination can be considered as a means of social inclusion which leads socio-economic development of the marginalized groups. In this paper an attempt has been made to examine the role of the policies of positive discrimination in the process of social inclusion of the socially excluded marginalized groups of the society and their development. The paper is based on secondary data and the same were collected from different documentary sources of data such as books, journals, research articles, etc.

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