We all are aware of our reservation systems for education. Some are for it and some against it. There is no right or wrong. Some believe that India can grow faster and some feel that it would take a much longer time for us to grow if reservations continue.
Lets look at the current scenario:
I am not against reservations, but at the same time I am against the way they are being implemented. I am against the way reservations became a vital card in the politics of India. I am against the criteria used to give reservations… I am against the current system of reservations and not the reservations as a whole.
The current system:
· Reservations are based on caste - I agree that in rural India, the caste a person belongs to almost everytime also speaks about his economic conditions, but its still very wrong to say that all the forward caste people can afford good education and that caste is the only feasible criteria to implement reservations! Reservations by caste only propogates casteism and delays the process of achieving a caste-free society.
· Ever increasing - When the reservations were first proposed, there was a plan to eliminate them gradually. Politicians or the few ill-minded people never let it happen. Moreover, new ways to increase reservations are being discovered, mostly aimed at gaining some political mileage and not with the aim of helping someone. Reservations need an elimination plan.
· The richer get richer - Those who took advantage of reservations once, take advantage of them again and again. How many people in rural India (those who actually need facilities and help) know about reservations at all? I know people who have studied in the same school as I did, enjoyed all the facilities I did but still had the benefits of reservation!
· Wrong place - Is reserving seats in the graduate and post-graduate colleges the best form of support? Should that not go to lower levels? If a person is not educated enough to fly a plane, you can’t recruit him to fly a plane just becuase you have already recruited 5 people and the next 5 should be from OBC, SC or ST. Necessary qualification is always a must! The right way to address the problem is to act at lower levels - but such things do not carry as much visibility as the reservations do… hence, not enough motivation for the leaders to do it!
What politics and Politicians Say:
Terming the Centre's proposal to provide reservation to minorities in premier institutes like IITs and IIMs as "dangerous and divisive", BJP on Friday said such a move would create "social tension and mutual distrust among the communities" with serious implications.
Terming the Centre's proposal to provide reservation to minorities in premier institutes like IITs and IIMs as "dangerous and divisive", BJP on Friday said such a move would create "social tension and mutual distrust among the communities" with serious implications.
"It shows how divisive the UPA government's thinking is. Instead of implementing a socio-economic agenda for the development of minorities, the government is playing a cheap political game," said party vice-president M Venkaiah Naidu at a press conference.
Pointing out that courts had struck down the minority status of Aligarh Muslim University and Andhra Pradesh government's ordinance on Muslim reservations, he said quotas based on religion were fraught with dangerous repercussions.
"If the same trend continues, it will lead to sowing the seeds for demand for another Partition in future," Naidu said adding that his party would oppose 'tooth and nail' any move to introduce quota system in IITs and IIMs.
Reservation is merit if this happens:
· There is a proper elimination plan. If any one among the parents took advantage of reservations their children should not be allowed to claim reservations. That does include the grand children when grand parents used the reservations.
· Economic conditions - I am very much against the caste based system. Reservation based on economic conditions would help reservations reach the people who need it and would also help maintain a balance between the rich and the poor.
· Government should concentrate on better facilities at lower levels. I and many others would not mind paying multiples of the education cess that we currently pay!
I hope Government is efficient and comes up with a plan to make reservations advantageous and benefit the needed. Thank you
Do you think reservations in the private sector will affect the ability of the companies to compete effectively?
As mentioned that, reservations can be a benefit if it happens in a proper way, I feel they would not affect the companies to compete. But if it happens just a place for someone who has sufficient benefits in the society, then it would cripple the companies to a great extent.
Thank you
Garvit Dave
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