Say “No” to reservation, not to people!
May 29th, 2007 , by amitagwlI am totally against reservation. I reprimand and hate people who like to create a case for reservation for selfish gains. Reservation has not done any good to any strata of Indian society. Its been there for 60 years and only people who have benefited from it our crooked politicians! They have abused this word for their petty gains multiple times. I believe in equality. Be it any person of the society. I just approve of scholorships and that too for the economically underprivileged. Democracy and law must treat everyone else as equals.
There is seemingly other side which is going wrong. One student at AIIMS topped the class and he should have been given a chance to choose whatever position he wanted. It seems, the position went to the second ranker who was a general category student. This is equally “wrong”! How can anyone do this to a deserving candidate? This will make things worse.
Rajasthan just had a fresh case of casualties under the name of reservation. Gurjars (a tribe in India), wants to be included in the scheduled tribe category so that they can harness the fruits of reservation. They did not talk about better education, better hospitals but reservation. Why? Because one of the politicians lured them into it to get the votes. So why government is not doing it? It seems there is a bigger tribe called “Meenas” who are under the ST category. If government includes Gurjars there too, it will decrease Meenas chances to get the reservation benefit. I just hope that this issue bring up the problems with reservation and some one will think about the alternative solutions. Well, I can just “hope” right now and I am sure nothing will change so soon.
So whats the solution?
Only solution for a person to get a secure job and long lasting prosperity is education. Education will give every person awareness, knowledge, self esteem and ideas to make his/her life better. Government must spend the required money on setting up educational insitutions where in education till 9th standard must be totally free. Anyone and everyone can come and attend the classes. I totally believe that increasing the schools and judicial courts/judges by 10 times will have a much more positive impact to our country than any other measure. Some NGOs like Akansha are doing a terrific job at it. We need to have many more such organizations and help our country to do away with these evil practices of reservation and the likes of it.
June 14th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Reservation in India is in some way similar to the affirmative action program in America. It is good and bad! Good if implemented in the right way and bad if it is implemented in the way it is being done now. Your example of the Gujjars and Meena makes a lot of sense. Reservation in India is being misused in every possible way but I still believe reservation has a role to play in defining the solution to this problem: Education. Reservation based on social and economic standards still is important to help families and communities that still are being discriminated socially and economically. There are communities in India that still are considered untouchables, that are still not allowed inside a temple, that still cannot send their children to schools. I truly believe that education only a stepping stone to all social and economic issues and reservation based on economic and social circumstances will actually give an opportunity to a kid who typically does not stand a chance due to the circumstances. The golden word here is Economic circumstances.
June 25th, 2008 at 3:49 am
Reservation was required at the time of independence , now i think after 60 years , not required. Already two generations would have got benefitted by this reservation , and they will be better position than thier forefathers to get better education and security for thier kins than thier predessors did….
August 27th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
In my opinion, We do not need reservation but a mandate that school education till 5th standard is free for everyone in public schools. Some reservation for economically deprived and then merit based scholarships beyond 5th grade.