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by Gautam Shirsekar on Apr 11, 2006 10:44 AM

Dear Mr. Kelkar,

It is very easy to point the finger on theory of possible degradation that would creep in those institutions after reservation, but this theory is rather hypothesis. To substantiate it, you need proof. Here we are talking about OBCs reservations, and nobody is willing to peep into the present strength of OBC students in these institutes who have fought their way from stiff competition from more privileged candidates of open category. So it will be quite interesting to see the data. These data along with socio-economic indices can certainly reveal some astonishing facts. I personally observed that wherever the reservation for OBCs exist it is as breakneck competition for those candidates as any other from open category. A huge 55 per cent population is said to be OBC, which vies for some 20 percent reserved seats. Dont think that OBC standards in education are too much lagging behind Open category standards, in fact in some educational domains like Agriculture, it is very difficult to get admission from OBC reservation quota than the open quota.

Since the deterioration of quality is proving to be a useful weapon for the anti-reservationists we need to loo

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