This is as bad as it can get. You are killing the quality of the nation by giving caste credence over merit. This is not going to help anybody, not even its purported beneficiaries, the OBCs.
Some years back, I read about a quota student getting thru in MP state medicals despite scoring a meagre 1 on 600. What is the end result? He will never be a doctor and even if he does somehow, it is for us to conjecture what kind of a doctor would he make!! The nation instead lost the chance to have a doctor on merit.
I am all for extending the benefit at the primary and secondary level education to the underprivileged kids, you may even make it free to ensure that the poor get to study but for god sake, let there be an even fight for getting into a professional institutes or jobs. You cannot kill merit to support caste line.
What is the fault of a general category kid if he was born to a certain parent? He studies hard, scores substantially higher than his quota counterpart but still remains deprived of an entry to elite school because politicos want to accomodate someone else for their vote bank cause, this is grossly unfair.
This is one idiotic legacy of V.P.Singh that this country will never forget. He tried doing this to create a vote bank for himself. He failed in doing that miserably and went into oblivion but the country will live with this misery for ever.
Arjun Singh is trying to do the same now and I wish people can still see through it!!!
