Reservation per se is regressive. Any selection (whether for education or for jobs) or promotion should be purely on the basis of merit. It is the Sixtieth year since Independence and we still are talking about "reservations"!!! The protections to SCs, STs, OBCs and other castes and communities has seen no improvement in the social strata of the country. Its time to think for alternatives to reservations. Its time for the government to think for having more schools and colleges for education and promote entrepreneurships for job creations.
These politicians have nothing to do with the upliftment of the downtrodden, leave alone the development of the country. Whatever development we see today is just because of the contribution of the private and the service sectors. Apart from the initial infrastructure developments undertaken by Jawaharlal Nehru, noone else subsequently did anything major for this country.
So, this talk of reservations for the poor among the upper castes is nothing but just another "vote bank" creation effort undertaken by these politicians.
RE:Reservations for poor among upper castes
by brahman on May 17, 2007 03:01 PM Permalink
what we are talking about is Education for all..from the primary levels... what is the use for fighting for a reservation in elite institutions like IIT or IIMs, unless the Dalits are able to even do the elimentary education... fight for the basics first..come up in life with merits...then you don't need anybody's mercy for higher education... For your kind information, the government is fighting for the creamy layer (you know what is the meaning of creamy layer - i.e. the richer section of the so called (or labelled) OBC) people to get in to IITs and IIMs with the lowest marks.. You tell me now, how is it going to help the poor unasuming DALITs of our country?
