We must welcome the government's decision to reserve certain seats in higher education/professional courses for SCs/STs and OBCs. This, however, should be subject to minimum condition of eligibility for admission. Reservation is like giving medicine and special diet to a sick child in the family. If the people of India constitute a family, it is our national duty to provide special opportunities to those who have for historic/social reasons fallen behind in the race or suffer from any disability. Indeed true spirit of social justice demands such reservation to each identifiable group in proportion to their population and degree of backwardness.
