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Reservation: boon or bane?
by Prem Kumar on Apr 03, 2007 10:41 PM

All,
Ask yourselves whether reservation is a boon or bane?

Anti-quota folks,
Since you have the power to express your opinions loud in forums & mails, doesn't mean your are in majority. Poor & backward don't get their voices heard and they always seem minority even though, I'm sure, more than 50% of our country is OBC or SC/ST.

Also, when you think reservation is not fair-play then ask yourself, whether it is fair-playing ground? Are you who educated in good convent and had multiple tuitions to clear your 12th std with *flying* colors equal to the poor rural student, who don't have proper access to books and education in Govt schools and also have to work for his daily food apart from schooling? Is it the *EQUALITY* you all ask for?

That student is economically & socially down-trodden because of the social inequalities existed in India for several centuries. When you great grand-daddy went to school in cycle, his great grand-dad was not allowed to walk in the town roads and were made to work only as janitors. This curse got passed on to him from generations.

This is just a course-correction and reservation is made to make level ground, not to snatch away oppurtunities from anyone. Think about it!

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