Monday, April 10, 2006

Reservations and my Analysis.
One,

All of us who argue against reservation stating that quality of education will suffer is actually being a different kind of politician. The real reason why we feel agitated to see report is because according to us a less deserving candidate, according to our criteria i.e. marks, has gotten into a better college than we could manage. Isn’t this true?
We want, reservations not to continue, we use the proxy of quality of education. The politicians need vote, they use a proxy of society upliftment.

Two,

If we sincerely concerned about the common good of the country irrespective of personal scope for achievement (As Sale ability to MNCs- someone rightly said), Some kind of upliftment of the backward classes is necessary. I say upliftment of backward classes because they anyway are substantial in proportion of population and if India, the country, dreams to become an economic superpower, then of course the backward classes should be part of it.

Three,

Is reservation of any kind helping? The answer here is no. What it does is, it is relegating the backward classes to even more backward ness. I say this because, Suppose I am SC student, I know getting 200 /300 in PCM will secure a seat in somaiya, Why the hell will I have to work for 10 hours of a day to achieve it?
The people who enjoy the benefits of reservation are actually ones who "are" already uplifted. Reservation gives them a way to merely work less. Hence pushing them backward.

The people who actually need upliftment, may be, don’t even know about Somaiya.

Proposed solution,

Things like reservation makes us the well educated people loose our cool because it further reduces our scope of success and benefit the one who know well that they don’t have to work hard (At least as hard as us).

So, whatever solution is found to this problem should take care of these. One of which could be, the gov’t should bear the brunt of reservation by money and not by snatching general quota seats to refurbish reserved seats. I mean whenever a 50 percent reservation is proposed, the size of the institute should be doubled and the no. of general quota seats should be intact. As we also, who don’t have reservation, have a right to dream. Money and resolve could of course do it. A country of a billion could build more than just a few IITs and IIMs.

And Second measure, Which is more important, Should try to ensure that reservation does not reduce the amount of effort put by people to get into good colleges. People who are to be uplifted by reservation should be randomly chosen from a list of eligible needy (eligibility should only be clearance of the previous level), WHEN WE HAVE DECIDED THAT RESERVATION IS FOR SOCIETY UPLIFTMENT IN GENERAL AND NOT A FRUIT FOR MERIT AND HARDWORK, WHY DO WE NEED PROXY MERIT?

This second point will ensure that any Tom, Dick and Harry, who has from pre nursery studied with me, and has same ambitions like me, cannot feel that they will get into any institute because they have an added qualification of being from a backward caste.

Everyone seeking admission should be trying for merit seats alone, and the govt will uplift randomly chose, lucky people, who as a matter of fact, fall in the category who need upliftment.

If this happens, there wont be any grudge or disunion in the campuses also. The meritorious, the needy person, the faculty everyone will be sensitive to the needy person and help him.

Won’t a solution in these lines be better? I known nothing actually is going to happen, but its just sincere expression of my views

1 comment:

Bala and Insanity said...

aaditya,

I understand the point you are trying to make. And fully agree to the need of educating the genuinely socially underpreviliged.

But my comment was one out of personal experiance. I almost have fully lived in big cities like Chennai and Mumbai. There have always been people belonging to cummunities to which govt provide reservations but they had perfectly equal opportunities like me. My point was that people like these form the major portion of the candidates taking admisssions through reservations. And hence something must be added to the clause of reservation for actually reserving seats to the needy.