Answer: The policy of reservation means keeping a fixed number of seats or posts for a particular group so that it can be represented and can come up to the level of others.
In India seats are reserved for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the Lok Sabha, the State Assemblies and the local bodies, and in government services and educational institutions. The 73rd and 74th Amendments reserved seats for women in local self-governing institutions, and Maharashtra has reserved 50% of these seats for women. The aim is to remove the injustice done in the past and to establish social justice and equality.