It is not right to say that the upliftment of weeker sections in USA has taken place without reservation. There has been special drive to make their participation visible in every sphere of life. Statistics says that such actions helped to create even millions among blacks during the past few years .As a person lived in UK for few years with all certainity I can state that there is a special drive to make the ethnic minorities and other similar groups to participate in the governing process in various councils (something similar to our Zilla Parishad)even there. While the feelings of meritorious students who gets sidelined for the cause of social upliftment of weeker sections are understandable, we should accept the fact that there is no easy route for undoing the historical injustice meted out to them by enforcing a caste system that gave a distinct advantage for generation , what we call as merit today. Let us accept the fact that it is an inherited merit derived in a unlevel game played for centuries. However the real issue is not reservation. The real issue is the social inequality practiced in rural India. Social equality in villages is as important as economic inequality. With liberalisation , the openings in Government and other public sector establishments have considerably come down. Telecommunication , Airlines, Banks and many other prospective domain of opportunities for reservation have been privatised giving merit the first chance. . Unless caste is removed the issue of reservation cannot be resolved. The proponents of reservation system from VP Singh to Arjun Singh all ensured that their kith and kin always got tied their nuptial knot only with a matching caste. They do not want to compromise in this area. Rather they want the system of caste to remain with all their love and affection to low castes ; so that they could derive political mileage out of such a condition. Do they have the courage to contradict this ? They are too keen to distribute the seats of premier educational institutions and gain popularity, which in any case their kith and kin would not qualify for!
