HRD,India have re-instated the provisions of the Mandal Commission
recommendations of 1980 of reserving 27% of all seats in institutes of
higher education being centrally funded for OBC's. In effect, this
alongwith the quota already administered for SC's and ST's ricochets
the quota to a staggering 49.5 %
This act will come into being in institutions such as Delhi
University, IIT's, IIM's and other prominent institutes on which India
prides itself. To create reservations for 49.% of the total seats
completely undermines every notion of the so called "equality" it
seeks to bring about.
Wikipedia tells me the following:
Reservation is a phenomenon unique to India and is different from affirmative action which is practiced in many other countries. The main difference between the two is that in affirmative action the amount of concessions to be made in order to increase representation in an underrepresented group is at the discretion of individual organizations, whereas the reservation system in India is based on statutory quota that must be met.
Affirmative action, by the way, is followed in the USA, particularly for Black and Hispanic minorities. In India, on the other hand, the whole system is lop-sided against the 'un-reserved' people...
Woefully, reservation was introduced to counter generations of partiality and prejudice adjudged to be due to the caste-system being in vogue, and, instead persecutes people of the un-reserved classes, which still account for 30-50% of the masses.
Under this pathetic system, the 'general quota' positions, are filled according to merit, and the people of the 'reserved classes' under those allocations, do not account towards the reserved vacancies.
Following is a view from an middle-class student from a high school in Chennai:
The concept of reservations in India has not worked for 50 years, and this guideline too is a more populist measure aimed at the "aam aadmi's" vote, while cutting away from the real reasons that foster an ever increasing urban-rural divide. Instead of focusing on increased infrastructure creation, strengthening the rural school systems and quality of education, creating trained manpower, cutting corruption and so on, the administration has instead played the reservation card yet again, screwing a sizeable section of the population.
Nice to see school kids knowing and acknowledging such things.
I, for one, felt an instant sense of alienation, due to extenuating differences in how my classmates and I, whom I had grown up with, were segregated, and differentially 'admitted' into institutions, based on accommodation into respective quotas (In case you are wondering, I fell into the general quota sometime back, which was filled up first, and hence, the consequent cribbing ;-) ).
I felt, personally, that there was no role, that I should play, to accede to this system further, and decided, that further education was only possible at a place there was no such prejudice on where you were born into. Sure, I could afford traveling abroad to study, and sure, my parent's were'nt the poorest of the poor, but it shames me to see, other very smart people, being left in the dirt, simply because, they were'nt of the right class. One of my cousins, for example, cleared well over 99 percentile on both engineering and medical entrance exams after high school, and still could not get into the top three medical colleges in the state, simply because he was'nt of the right birth.
Super-smart, ( or super-rich) people do not feel this pinch, among the un-reserved classes, but the poor, and insufficiently educated lot, are certainly decimated by the system. People like me, who could afford to get out of the system, do so... And considering the opportunities vis-a-vis money and potential elsewhere, why is it then at all surprising, that there is so much brain drain?
Something must be done to rectify the situation, before the politicians in India accuse the smart people of bailing out.
2 comments:
The Best way to diversify all Reservation System in India, is to make it on Income criteria. Such as 50 % seats reserved for families below annual income of say Rs.20,000/-. All the problems to this question will be solved. But it is only the politicians who want to stick to that old system, only for the sake of their own playing with the game.
Dr. Ambedkar had suggested this reservation system for upcoming of SC/ST people for period of ten years, from 1951. But there was a sub clause that in case of need it can be extended for further ten years.
It was in 1961 Jawaharlal Nehru who extended it up to 1970, then Indira Gandhi from 1971 to 1980, then again from 1981 to 1990, then Rajiv Gandhi from 1991 to 2000, then Atal Bihari Vajpeyi from 2001 to 2010.
Any political party has no courage to do the right job. Once upon a time Bajpeyi had spoken as a opposition party leader in the year 1993 to make this system on Income Basis, but he was compelled to apologise in the Parliament just on the next day !! This is all Indian politics.
The wife of Dr Ambedkar had addressed a public meeting in Ahmedabad in 1992, mentioned that my late husband did not wish this system for so many years, as is now working in India. He had thought the extension clause for only for once or twice.
Otherwise you very well understand that poors can be from the caste of Brahmins, Jain, Patel, Muslims too. And those who are not Poor even from SC/ST castes, must be deprived from availability of benefits from this system. Its very simple. Please take this issue before public opinion again and again.
Repeat, Please take this issue before public opinion again and again. So once upon a time reservation system must be changed to Income Basis criteria.
Please do not worry how Government will decide Income base to all individuals. Presently all applicants to state housing board’s housing scheme and all applicants of petroleum product dealership, have to sign an affidavit of Not having annual family income over Rs.50,000/-. Our govtt has successfully issued separate ration cards to families “Below poverty Line” families. There are so many other ways too.
Nice work there we need guys like u to push reservation out of India.Enough of this rot.I dont want reservation to stall our growth
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