Reservations are good for merit students
by Secular India on Apr 11, 2008 09:21 AM
In IITs/IIMs - grading is relative. So if the merit students are truly meritorious, they would be always in the first two quartiles of the class. This will help them get jobs and admissions to schools abroad. The campus hiring process always feeds out useless fellows...so those who are good have nothing to fear. Companies hire good people and not because they has the stamp of IIT. In fact - they would now insist on IQ tests before making any offers if grades are not available. The government thinks that students are considered great because they are taught by Noble prize winning professors at IIT - the students are considered great because they came through tough process of entrance. Those who do not get shunned. Future governments may insist reservations during campus hiring process and then companies will stop hiring from campus. There is no way companies will hire sub-standard individuals. They would rather not hire and hire top talent as contractors.
