Reservation is needed or not in INDIA

Reservation is required by the politicians to get scores of

votes. India needed reservation only after independence
to brings all the castes in the mainstream. But a
reservation for higher study was never needed. If a
person from backward class can complete one's
schooling without reservation and bias then why one
needs to be reserved after that. There can be no school or
institute in India where one is stopped entering just
because of taking birth in backward classes.
1.
Girish you wrote very well, i agree with you perfectly.
For the upliftment of downtrodden, reservation can be
there but no way reservation is justified in the higher
education and other similar fronts in India.
2.
Well before we slam the politicians and all lets look in
to the past and observe why was the reservations done in
the first place and its present impact.
In the past(before independence) its true that the higher
classes enjoyed more benefits - I mean what all the titles
like Rai Bahadur, and etc were mean tot create a social
unrest which was utilised to its best by the British.
It seems that to reverse things a bit and also appease the
SC/ST s reservations were made. Moreover the census
of 1932 too showed that the SC/ST s and OBCs were
larger in numbers. So it can be said that for general
appeasement of masses it was also a political step by the
Country makers at that time. Moreover with the
proximity to USSR at that time the word "equality" may
have sounded different at that time.
Reservations were made not only in castes but also
between states at lets keep J & K out of this since it had
its own problems to deal with.
If we look into most of the Government PSUs made after
independence we would observe that they intentionally
kept Maharashtra and West Bengal out of it purview
since they were the most developed states during in and
around independence. Former being the seat of the
commercial capital and the later being the seat of the
country's capital in the past. Rather New Delhi being the
capital of India only for 96 years whereas Calcutta was
the capital from 1772 to 1911 - 139 years.
Now initially there was a time frame for implementing
the "social upliftment" - the term coined by all those pro-
reservation politicians (may be that includes everyone
except Sidhu pajji) now. After that time frame got over it
was found that they still lag behind so it was increased
and more time was given but it reached its peak with the
"Mandal commission".
Now after 60 years of independence if "social
upliftment" has not been achieved then it clearly
indicates the process thus chosen was wrong.
Reservation always meant to deny the deserving from
the pie and give it to some who doesn't deserve it.
Frankly this whole drama is appeasing the masses but
there is a flip side of it. It's this that General Category
class is still ahead. It meant that due to competitions for
fewer seats the generals are getting better day by day.
And they are still ahead despite of all the reservations
against merit.
Who is actually benefiting, are the labour class of SC/ST
s benefiting? NO!!! The service class is biggest and
perhaps the only benefactor. The people whom we meet
everybody in our offices, schools, parks, restaurants
belonging to this class are "THE" biggest benefactor.
Reservation in my opinion should be made for every one
who heralds from a lower economic status for one-time
for either govt. jobs or govt. educational institution.
Once availed it cannot be used for the next 3 generations
and that too after calculating the economic status. This
would ensure that it comes to an end one day.
There is another point I would like to make is why did
politicians suddenly warmed up for reservations in
premier institutions and private firms. Well, during
Mandal commission, our present PM Dr. Manmohan
Singh did introduce something called "Liberalisation".
Credit to him for having such a long-sighted concept,
slowly it became apparent in the late nineties early
millennium that there aren't sufficient jobs in the
government sector and most of them were going after
private firms - that meant that reservation in government
sector is not that valuable any more. So this is the only
way out. But kudos to Private firms and IIMs, IITs and
not forget the medical fraternity who has the biggest
influence in the social setup who stood up against this
"social menace". But above all the Supreme Court who
proved time and again that it would not be the part of
cheap politics.
3.
It is not needed in the present form. Constitution makers
provided reservations for 25 years. Now this has become
an unending process due to vote bank politics. In the
meantime those who got jobs from the reserved category
in the 50s and 60s have their wards well settled and
relocated to USA etc. Reservations to the next
generation cannot be justified. But there are prominent
politicos who want reservations for the next 2000 years -
their logic - for the last 2000 years a section of society
has been backward. this is staple diet for China to do
well. there are thick headed - and no headed persons in
society who cant see beyond winning the next election.
50 years is not enough for a social or a academically not
exposed backward communities in India to come up and
to compete with the thousands of years academically
sound communitie(s) which denied the education and
kept the education only to them.So why still many most
backward classes in India has only the First generation
learners compared to the forward community's ratio.It is
not the question of vote bank for politicians and they are
really in very Right Track in this issue of reservation
4.
I agree with Sachin and Shampa that this is a mere
political proposition and a politician's bread and butter as
he can not exist without it - If it is Congress and so
called Secular Parties who believe their existence in 'For
Quota' stance, its BJP and so called Communal parties
who believe their existence in 'Against Quota' stance.
But it is just that; I mean non of them do not actually
want this Quota System to go. It is a all weather political
product that benefits both hues of Indian Politics.
If it is Caste System which is still in existence, hats off
to bastard politicians. There is no need to give job on the
basis of caste. Let the Government come out with a
Quota system purely based of economic condition of
person. As Sachin rightly said - Today a wall has
emerged among the ST/SC population - Service Class
and Labour Class; The former is continuously
benefiting, rather unnecessarily and labour class remains
where it was 50 years back. So there should be a
countrywide stir to force these politicians to rectify their
mistake which breeds so many hatre among sections.