There was a significant percentage of OBCs and SC/ST and NT/DT guys in our batch....barring a few of them, the rest of them were very sincere and hardworking and some of them were quite intelligent too...
However, my observation was the upper caste Marathis, South Indians and to some extent the Gujaratis almost ostracized them in all 4 years of engineering....
The Upper caste guys would typically form project groups amongst themselves...travel from home to collge together and even enjoy and have fun together.... Almost as if these guys did not exist...simply put, many of these guys who come on seat are either ignored or patronized or ridiculed....but they are never treated as equals..
Now, as you people know, engineering or medical, it is all about teamwork...you can't exists in a vacuum and work in isolation, it is all about team work and team peojects and practicals...
This also means that these guys on reserved seats can't get the inputs and learning from the brightest students in the batch and generally tend to form groups amongst themselves..
So, the end result is that many of them do badly in their 4 years in engineering and end up with multiple KTs(failures) which translates to many of them not being able to complete their degrees in 4 years....
The point i'am making is that if upper caste students are more accepting and inclusive, these weaker students would have a steeper learning curve and they would be able to feed off on the values that we cheri
