In my view the prescribed quota in educational institutional/govt. sector/private is totaly unconstitutional & is violative to the basic feature of the constitution as enshrined in PREAMBLE. The preamble state justice, liberty & equality to all its citizens. The state has no power even exercising the power under article 368 of the constitution.
It is further my view that quota was a political move of the governemt/parties to capute votes to remain in power or gather power.
I am hearing news that the Union Govt. is fully prepare to apply quota in private sector. Are you know that government sectors are fully failure in their achievement & objects because quota system lowering the profiency & effeciency of the government sector.
The reservation and quota system may have been started with some good intensions. But the present day political class has used it as a vote bank. Our politicians are not for the development of nation or society, they, for their seats, will have no qualms in dividing the country into pieces. No politician has the guts to say additional quotas are not in the interest of the nation. Only God can save this nation, certainly not politicians.
It is really the voice of the hour that can be heard in your article. Reservation is the word, which by itself, depicts that someone is weak; while there is none who is weak or backward! Every individual is divine and equally potential to achieve his/her life's purpose. It is only mean politicians (who are exploiting the public for securing their political interests) who resort to such cheap tricks called 'Reservations' thereby causing an irrepairable damage to the society. Let every educated individual object this objectively to put a step forward to achieve true democracy.
For long there was a talk about brain drain to the west. Students going to the west for higher studies and most never return and they think a hundred times even if they want to. Now this brain drain was considered due to better educational facilities in the west. Now since India is also catching up with regards to infrastructure, the government feels it should not retard the process of brain drain by reserving jobs in private sector. So now a student will leave the country because someone who is lesser qualified will get his job! By reserving seats in elite institutions, he will leave the country even before he joins a job. The west will be happier. They get the best of the talent with no effort. Lets ask the politicians if they will give up their seat to their rival even if he has won by a comfortable margin just because the rival is from a weaker society? So if the cabinet minister wins by a hansome margin, he should giveup his seat to his rival if he is a BC or an SC or thousands of other backward sections created by the government. This is true, the governments since independance failed miserably. Their future plans always failed. Let it be Pakistan or reservations.
i agree, the system of caste-based reservations has failed, and it has outlived its' purpose. the objective ought to be to empower the economically-backward regardless of their community of origin or religion, as money is the ultimate reality today. today reservations are only a political tool, and only lip-service is paid to the economic backwardness of the intended beneficiaries of this system. it is a crime to deny a person opportunities for education based on his status in the caste-system.
Dear Editor, Brahmins and well-heeled people like Vinod Ramanan,the author of this article may not need reservation but the deprived sections of the society need it. If IT companies that run up crores and crores of rupees refuse to reserve jobs for the poor let them wind up business and turn tail.In my view, in companies like Wipro, 60% of the jobs should be reserved for the underprivileged.If they refuse to fall in line they should be penalised by the Government. To the question why jobs should be reserved for the disadvantaged sections in the private sector the answer is in the pledge quoted by the author.Since people like Vinod Ramanan refuse to treat all Indians like Brothers and sisters the government is dragooned to step in.
A very true article calling a spade a spade. Oppression of backward castes still goes on, primarily in rural areas where policies and government has not been able to reach. But those are hardly the people who benefit from reservation. People benefitting from reservation are those who got to attend good schools, could afford tuitions, are well-to-do, but belong to the backward castes.
Upper castes may have been responsible for oppressing the lower castes in the past and in the present. But how is punishing the whole caste a solution? And so many reservations so as to put the upper castes in minority, that too reservations clearly promoting those belonging to a particular caste rather than a more deserving candidate? That is grossly unfair. Many people justify that as "now upper castes will know how it feels to be deprived and oppressed". Is that the purpose of reservation, or just a vendetta that the government is officially inflicting on its citizens? Government should begin by taking a census of profiling all those who have benefited from reservations in the last 10 years vs. their economic state. They will know how misleading all the arguments on reservations are. But looks like the Government will be the last one to even bother about the true reasons!
rightly said ramanan. Reservation policy is a practice of injustice. We have a habit in our democracy to keep people deprived and and then talk much about do little and help vested interests to benefit. In every society the flow of life depends on the the force that enjoys a power. The one that enojoys power in the Biggest democracy is INJUSTICE. We say in our constitution that every body has teh right to lead a life of diginity, he has the basic right to live, work and earn. But unfortunately we refuse to employ those who have teh mettel to work and who are willign to work. We ensure that those who donot have any of those would have claim and right for a job, we ensure that those who work would suffer and and those who donot would go up teh ladder in the govermental system. We still say that we are proud of that and go to vote the same polititians every five years. No wonder we are prisoners of ourselves. There is no place for a righteous citizen.
The author has been so critical of reservation policy but does not bother to discuss a practical solution for uplifing backward classes. The ideal solution is to provide SC/ST students quality education right from their childhood and make sure that they dont drop out of the school to earn bread and butter. But that would require huge money which India do not have. Given the current economics of India, reservation is the MOST PRACTICAL SOLUTION. Reservation is only a part of solution and not a solution in itself and needs more support in the system to make it more successful. SC+ST account for 24% of India's population as per Census of India 2001. OBCs account for something around 52% of India's population. And forward caste accounts merely 12% if India's population! These 12% people are ruling every sector of India. These figures themseleves reveal the grave INEQUALITY that is existing in India. Given the gap between the grooming of an SC/ST child and a general category child, the opportunities are unequal for them. Reservation is a level playing field. How backward SC/STs really are is clear from the fact that even after 50 years of reservation the situation is not very good.
