India is highly credited in the western world as a storehouse of brain power. If we let non-deserving candidates into technical courses just because they come under the reserved category, whether medical or IIT or IAS, we will dilute our excellent prowess in these fields. We will no more be a force to be reckoned with. If the backward classes study hard and can pass the entrance on 'merit' and MERIT alone, then they do deserve a break and one can be provided in the form of govt aided financial loan. Why dont our power hungry, vote hungry, politicians think on those lines! Instead they want to dilute the high standards of the institutions? How crazy is that?