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Reservation is important...
by Nitin TITU on Jun 04, 2007 06:52 PM

Reservation is required. Rich lower castes exist because of reservations. please do not forget that and if there was no reservation then there would have been no rich lower castes in the first place... People who speak here are those who are educated and working in big companies and obviously will access internet. It is a vicious circle, an upper caste city bred guy or gal has access to everything and eventually make it "big". Imagine a person from a rural background cannot speak the so called "proper english" and will be discriminated by various names - from budhu to stupid. No one from the city bred group will like to make friends with them, therefore the person will lose confidence and will never think big.
Coming to rich lower castes, well they constitute a minority and when you cannot find lower income lower castes then only other the so called rich lower castes should be given priority because an lower caste person will understand what discrimination is and will help out a lower caste when the person reaches the policy level decision making stage. Please recall how many us will actually make friends with a lower caste person without showing pity. Have a look at all the friends and will find everyone is well-to-do and from upper castes. Whether we agree or not we are like that... we want lower caste to remain there so that our homes can be cleaned cheap, our children can be taken care.. and show charitable attitude by throwing some money to them occasionally to satisfy o

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SC/ST reservations: Justified?