Modi pushes quotas ahead of Lok Sabha polls, but where are the jobs?

The announcement comes after a number of setbacks for Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the vote due by May

India’s ruling party, which promised to create 10 million jobs a year, looks a little nervous as it heads toward re-election.

With national polls just months away, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration is pledging to extend a 10 per cent quota for government jobs and higher education places to groups including upper caste Hindus, who form the backbone of his support base.

The move, which requires a constitutional amendment, would extend a measure designed to correct historic discrimination among so-called lower castes. But the quota will be limited to people who earn as much as $11,500 per year — roughly six times