Every body in india should aim for a casteless society. Mr caretaker is just grieving because of some brain wash. I live in a small eastern india town, and caste is a completely irrelevent factor here. Nobody asks anybody his /her caste. New generation simply refuse to be categorised. The main reason for backwardness is economic. If a brahmin is poor doent have loaf of breads to eat he cleans the toilet as simple as that. And there are a hell lot of them please belive me. Towners or city dwellers wont need me to tell them these things. They know. I think government if it really wants to do something other than harvesting votes, they will have to take a painful route. To collect recent economic data all over india as they collect the data for population etc and then give economic based help. I say help not reservation the reason is that once any body gets food w/o working he becomes inefficient. So why not teach them how to catch fish. Better to do economic stratification give them smart cards and give more and more benefits for primary secondary and college education. Give grants for each child for private tutions at 50% of market prevailing rates, give them book coupans etc. But let them compete fix a criteria for giving freebies. But politicians will be simply afraid to do this because when people become literate they will become irrelevent so why not 'break them and rule them'. This is simple and corruptive. This is corruption they are pushing backward more back and back. B R Ambedkar was a wise man, why had he allowed reservation for 10 years only. Forget it may be 10 years was not sufficient bu after 60 years it is completely irrelevent. government will have to adopt novel approach to tackle the problem.
