Reservation based on caste were meant to apply only for ten (10) years but unfortunately, now, when we have crossed 60, they still exist in our country.
This, incompetence of our political masters,has only served to divide us further and further away from our united goal.
Reservation should have been based on economic criteria alone.
We must learn to accept the lessons taught by our past.
Mayawati's call for reservation for poor among the upper castes has lit a glimmer of hope. Besides both Dr Singh and Advani are, at long last, on a similar wave-length> But all this still needs fine-tuning. The Have Nots are restless, still. The rest, who may not be that badly off but are languishing in the doldrums yet, are not going to take it lying down much longer.
Let us force all politicians to forget the past mistakes and begin to look forward at OUR future.
Why do they still speak bull-**** (bovine waste)?
Reservation for Dalits, Brahmins, SCs/STs, OBClasses, or any other such reservation, has dark shades of religion-based and / or regional, parochial political-based over-tones which have splintered us Indians.
See what is expressed here in all your discussion groups, Rediff. !
We know that for our ever-growing population they (our political phooh-phahs)have not provided sufficient amount the right kind of resources for all OUR people.
Only to those who were really economically impaired and could not have afforded good education, should they have provided with all the wherewithal for upliftment, irrespective of their caste, creed or religious leanings.
Time has come to start afresh, and we must ... now.
Let's face it, we have been sickular, not secular, all these years. We were not able to give them good basic primary education, so we should not be talking at all about reservations for them in IITs and IIMs, or in medical and engineering colleges.
We must help them in every possible way to do an honest piece of work. Reservations in employment opportunities in the government sector for a maximum three (3) years is okay. But that does not mean we must protect their jobs for life and legacies. If they do not measure up by in three years, then, they should be out on their nether-mounds.
As it is this sector is laid back and sluggish. We cannot fill up vacancies only with incompetence, now that, with hindsight, we have seen that most such people have taken reservation to be their birth-right and jagirs.
For sixty years our focus has been wrong.
We should have have concentrated on having more schools and colleges.
We should have also had many more special institutions for the handicapped and our other disabled brethren. They are the the real under-privileged who need our help to integrate in society.
Reservations in the private sector is a foolish idea. It will be a grave mistake and a big liability on the nation.
