India, Oct. 1 -- Teacher in a district council school, Chandrapur I have benefited from the protests led by Maratha quota activist Jarange-Patil over the last three years. I was selected as a teacher this year in a district council school in Warora, Chandrapur, and will obtain the validity certificate - a formal verification document required to prove the legal authenticity of the OBC certificate during admissions to educational institutes or government jobs - which has to be submitted shortly. I was the first from my family to obtain a Kunbi certificate in 2012, after which the entire family followed. My husband obtained it in 2029, based on which both my daughters received a scholarship for Class V this year. Though my OBC certificate was obtained way before Jarange-Patil's protest, the validity certificate, which is difficult to obtain, has become easier to get, given the atmosphere created across the state around reservations. I entered government service at 38 having missed opportunities earlier owing to the need of high merit in the category to which I belonged. It was painful to face rejection despite scoring 148 out of 200 in the 2008 entrance examination, while people who scored 90 or 100 marks from the OBC category were inducted into the service. They are 20 years senior to me now. If I had the opportunity earlier, I would have been a Class-I officer by now....