Solutions
* Dr Ambedkar was in favour of the idea of separate electorate for the Depressed Classes, and this was entrusted by him in the 1st Round Table Conference. Dr. Ambedkar was representing the Depressed Classes in the conference.
* Mahatma Gandhi was against this idea, and when Prime Minister Macdonald decided to grant the communal awards to the minorities and to the Depressed Classes, he even undertook a fast whilst in the jail in Poona.
* Due to public pressure to make an end the fast unto the death, Dr Ambedkar and MK Gandhi made the Poona Pact which laid down the reserved seats for the Depressed Classes in the provincial legislatures for which elections would be via the joint electorates.
* The Electoral College would elect a panel of four candidates who belong to the Depressed Classes. All these candidates would be elected on the basis of a single vote. Four candidates getting the highest number of the votes would be elected.
* Then all these four candidates would stand in the election for the Assembly along with that of the general candidates where the general electorate would able to vote. The members of the Depressed Classes, therefore, got a 'double vote' since they could vote under the general electorate also.
* Even in the Central Legislature, the similar principle of the joint electorate and reserved seats was to be followed.
* The British instead of 80 seats, the depressed classes got a total of 147 seats.
* In the Central Legislature, a total of 19% of the seats would be reserved for the Depressed Classes.
* This system would continue for a period of ten years unless a mutual agreement consents to terminate it in an earlier time.
* No one would be discriminated against on the basis of caste on matters regarding the election to the local bodies or in public services appointments.
* A certain total of money from the educational grant would be allotted for the education of the Depressed Classes in all provinces.