As India enters into it's 61st free year from the Britishers rule, all of those who are reading this article are in a position to analyze where INDIA stands.
Leaving aside the International stance,let us remember the TELUGU SLOGAN:" FIRST WIN THE SUPPORT OF YOUR FAMILY AND THEN WIN THE SOCIETY"... So how far did we climb the success graph in overcoming Poverty,unemployment,illiteracy,terrorism and various differences(language,regional,religion,caste,creed,sex based)etc?
I used to blame AMBEDKAR whenever i lost my seat in a good institute.Because i was of the prejudice that, he has ruined my opportunity of going to a good school by introducing the RESERVATIONS on caste basis.It is only later that i realized, he only started this policy, as there was a necessity during those days.It is the politicians who could not leave their vote bank that stuck to these RESERVATIONS. If the aim of the RESERVATIONS is to bring equality amongst all castes,then according to me, it is definitely not headed in that direction in the current scenario.As long as the EAMCET or IIT or IIPM or IB or IIIT counsellor asks "what caste are you from?Do you have any resevration?" i believe each one of us is forced to know what caste he/she belongs to at this point.
Till we passed out of high school not many of us knew what caste our bench mate was or the teacher was.Suddenly it is from the stage of INTERMEDIATE that the necessity to know what caste a student is arises. When you work hard and toil day and night to get a good rank and get into a good college/university you are told that your admission is denied because your seat was filled by a person whose rank is 1000000 or even more multiples of your rank.
What would be the feeling that arises out of the boy?( i am excluding girls as they have a 33% reservation...so even they can not claim to be peers to boys as long as they beg for reservation). Would the boy feel.."WOW!!! my society is doing justice by treating everyone equal.It is all right even if my hard work has gone futile. Is it ok even if i don't get into a good school."??????? If i empathize with the boy i would say:" What the fuck??i don't understand what you are talking about! I got a better rank.i am supposed to be given the seat.How can you give the seat to such a dumb fellow?".
Now again the loop goes back to cursing AMBEDKAR and those who enjoy the fruits of reservations. I have utmost respect to ARMY,CIVIL service people.They are entitled to reservation as they need to travel frequently and face a lot of adversities.But i was alarmed that a different set of religious people were entitled to those benefits.
It is a known fact that, this was the group that the ARMY is fighting at the borders.It is this group that has raided BHARAT(I am not using INDIA ,because i believe that term has been derived from the "EAST INDIA" company of the British) 17 times and forcefully demolished the religious idols and worship places.Not all people of this group are malevolent.But all those who are malevolent at the Border are from this group. In the coming future,all the Govt offices and Civils posts are going to be filled by these "incompetent" sectors.Yes i shall continue calling them "incompetent" as long as they fail to compete in the open category.Isn't a boy from a different sector being deprived of his privileges due to this method? i would suggest ECONOMIC HELP can be rendered by the govt,provided the student is meritorious irrespective of caste,creed,sex,region,religion.There should be no hard coded RESERVATIONS on any basis for that matter cos...after seeing what happened to the so called "DOWN TRODDEN" sections ...it shall be the turn of the Economically backward people to turn lazy.
Therefore i strongly urge every youth to think in this direction.HELP is OK...but RESERVATION is a demonic term that threatens the very existence of equality. I am happy that i am in the US.there is no scope for a rejection of my candidature when compared to a fellow Indian.I know that there would be a debate on this point.I strongly iterate that all the "PATRIOTS" support the Americans keeping us out or for that matter any other Nationalites treating us with contempt.In India, you show discrimination based on every aspect.So what is wrong in the people abroad showing a snobby face to you?Atleast they are a lot better cultured than we are. At this point,if anyone wishes to sing the national anthem and feels that they are having goosebumps and feel like trashing me for not being patriotic, fine.I am all game for it.I know that BHAARAT has a history of over 3000 years and its rich cultural heritage.But just as the adage goes," TAMARINDS DONT FALL DOWN TO MAGIC SPELLS." so there is no use of bragging about the GOLDEN PAST....instead open your eyes and see the future ahead...SHAPE your future also a PLATINUM ..!!!! Jai HIND!!
P.S: LOKSATTA's stand on RESERVATION is on basis of economical stage and not caste/region.This is what needs to be considered ultimately.
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I also feel once reservation oppurtunity used, his/her children should become ineligible for reservation from then onwards...
because an oppurtuity is being given and it has to be used properly, if not its a waste to give him/her the reservation.
Many students around me are surving on reservation thinking where ever they go they wil have reservation and so will their future family memebrs.
THERE IS NO PROPER IMPACT OF THIS SYSTEM ON US
If not now at a later stage this procedure shud be implemented.
One should be given oppertunity to do well in EAMCET, not to get an engineering seat with out doing good in it. This is the solution for the whole problem.
Our biggest enemy is politics. Not resrvation.
If reservations were lifted instead of few people, few other people get seats and jobs.
By and large annuling of reservation is not going to benifit society much. However I accept that cream will be missed in certain aspects.
People/pupil who work hard could not get seats/jobs. Instead less talanted people would get job/seats. This kind of sacrifies of some people may be required.
From ones personal prospectives this may not be good. But its the responcibility of Governments to think about society's growth as a whole. With some people left still back word we canot really make a developed country. To make ours a developed country some kind of incentives needs to be given to encourage people who were deprived of many things.
Mainstream Political parties are taking the reservations issue on to their stride. People under cover of reservations are not getting much benifited but political parties are getting benifited.
If we encourage good politics people under reservation cover would get proper justice and would get better in life both socially and economically. In the existing political system it is not at all
possible to lift reservations. I personally feel its waste of spending time and energy on this.
If unemployment is the problem we need to find ways to create employment.
Because of these bad and opputunistic politics we have all these problems. I dont say reservation is not a problem. It is. I was also badly hit by this. But fortunately I have become a s/w eng and leading good life. If I analyse this properly, with the strenthened private sector organisations, lot employment was created. Especially in AP,
karnataka, Delhi, TamilNadu, Maharastra. This is one of the good decisions taken by these state Govts. These Govts have encouraged IT/BPo and other
private firms and industries. Other state governments can learn from this.
Governments has to put effort in reaserching about the future global needs and demands and start working on satisfying those demands. It would create better employment.
Just think ones was dat our disssatisfaction on many things made us said Our cast needs reservation.
We have many problems apart from reservation. The pne stop solution
for all these problems is making good parties into power.
Our biggest enemy is politics. Not resrvation.
If reservations were lifted instead of few people, few other people get seats and jobs.
By and large annuling of reservation is not going to benifit society much. However I accept that cream will be missed in certain aspects.
People/pupil who work hard could not get seats/jobs. Instead less talanted people would get job/seats. This kind of sacrifies of some people may be required.
From ones personal prospectives this may not be good. But its the responcibility of Governments to think about society's growth as a whole. With some people left still back word we canot really make a developed country. To make ours a developed country some kind of incentives needs to be given to encourage people who were deprived of many things.
Mainstream Political parties are taking the reservations issue on to their stride. People under cover of reservations are not getting much benifited but political parties are getting benifited.
If we encourage good politics people under reservation cover would get proper justice and would get better in life both socially and economically. In the existing political system it is not at all
possible to lift reservations. I personally feel its waste of spending time and energy on this.
If unemployment is the problem we need to find ways to create employment.
Because of these bad and opputunistic politics we have all these problems. I dont say reservation is not a problem. It is. I was also badly hit by this. But fortunately I have become a s/w eng and leading good life. If I analyse this properly, with the strenthened private sector organisations, lot employment was created. Especially in AP,
karnataka, Delhi, TamilNadu, Maharastra. This is one of the good decisions taken by these state Govts. These Govts have encouraged IT/BPo and other
private firms and industries. Other state governments can learn from this.
Governments has to put effort in reaserching about the future global needs and demands and start working on satisfying those demands. It would create better employment.
Just think ones was dat our disssatisfaction on many things made us said Our cast needs reservation.
We have many problems apart from reservation. The pne stop solution
for all these problems is making good parties into power.
There are people who have benefitted because of reservations. There are people who have lost out because of reservations.
But in already unequal society the reservations instead of bridging the gap, its widenning it.
Definitely, reservations could help poor people, whose background is not actually student friendly. Poor people find it hard to keep investing in their childrens education for a long period of time: its a good 16 years of education an engineer needs at the least.
If a child is interested to study, and he cant continue because his father cant pay him, thats the sadest thing isnt it? He would if only I had been given birth by a father who is wealthier!!
I would say that we need to take a balanced approach. Instead of further dividing people in terms caste and religions, we need to focus on the upliftment of deserved candidates from poor economic background.
Again, many people would try to show that they are poor, but in this information age, we can make sure it reaches the right person!!
Hi All,
Good to have a nice discussion like this on an important topic like Reservations.
Before even to go to judge the Reservation system, I like to pose few things simply here.
I believe that many people argue in favor of Reservations. Because it might be the cause that people of lower-considered-castes are generally financially very poor.
And hence, now if we talk about the solutions, all that we require is, to facilitate the child education.
In such a condition, what JP proposes is exactly the best solution. He says Free Education to Everyone and NO RESERVATION ANYMORE.
This is also the solution to the poor from any caste and religion. There are, definitely, poor people distributed over all the castes in considerable number. And this way we can give a single answer to all the challenges.
In JP Prajapaksham, one day a person from upper caste, asked "JP Sir, is it a curse that we born in Upper castes?". That level of frustration really is present in economically poor people in upper castes.
Removing reservations will sound like a very very bad news for the lower caste people. But in fact, it is really a good solution. Because, reservations help people mainly to pursue higher studies after intermediate, engineering..etc. But the actual problem is that, for some poor person from the lower castes, dragging (financially) till 12th class itself is the biggest problem. Only richer people in lower castes can avail the education till 12th and then start enjoying the facility of reservation there after. Irony, even the reservations are failing to serve the poor in lower castes.
So, to conclude, i believe that, the real solution is to provide free, high quality education to every child and then remove reservation. Our so called politicians will not opt for this because they are bothered about the votes of the lower castes but not in the welfare of the poor people in lower caste people
Vijay can u mail at loksatta.focussed@gmail.com
@vijay
I have put my thoughts on this topic in one of the orkut discussions.
well i have posted this as an blog too
http://loksattafocussed.blogspot.com/2008/07/orkut-archives-aditya-political-reforms.html
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