Reservation, Cancellation and Discrimination
As the reservation issue burns HOT in the minds of a lot of people I watched the way people behave when they are spooked with the feeling of insecurity is very diverse. This post is not about reservation or anti-reservation but about behavioral patterns of the mind and its diverse thoughts but ends with my stand on reservation. Diverse is a complex term because it is used just to mean that a thought is different from one point of view or value system and not that the thought is weird or bad or good.
I saw a posting on an anti-reservation community on Orkut calling everyone to report a pro-reservation community as a bogus. I just don't understand how that is going to help anybody's cause. And when another person questioned this, the reply from a totally different person is freedom of expression is a birth right and that everyone can choose to report it as bogus if they wanted to. This is a really complicated situation here where the freedom to expression is used to take away somebody else's freedom of expression.
There is a Pro-reservation blog where I saw an article about how the Dalits were treated in a college, being asked to sit separately, eat separately and being treated like they didn't exist. It is the sickest thing that can happen to any country but to use this incident of discrimination done in some 3rd class college as a reason to fight for reservation is something my mind couldn't reason out.
An Anti-Congress community formed by the anti-reservation lobby. I don't have any political views but still if there is no other political party that opposes reservation it means that they are all for it. To stay quite in the midst of an issue like reservation is like supporting it. No one has the nerve to oppose it because everyone is afraid of losing votes. There is no honest political party around so why fight a party? Shouldn't people be fighting the government what ever political party they are? By being Anti-congress what is going to be achieved? Isn't the energy of the struggle getting diluted towards other things?
I got a mail calling for contributions to conduct an all India Anti-Reservation meeting and the contributions would go towards the participant's AIR TICKETS and ACCOMODATION. Anti-reservation in its current form is a cause that is definitely worth fighting for and I have a lot of respect for them for being responsible citizens, sacrificing their time, energy, money and comforts. But isn't sponsoring for the participant's air-tickets and accommodation way too much!!! It should mostly be voluntary in my opinion. Why go to such extreme hospitality measures and spend time, energy and resources on things like this which I can only classify as luxuries. Can't they come by train; can't they be accommodated by fellow friend's who are fighting for the same cause?
In the end my take on reservation, as diverse as the four cases above. I think reservation in its current form is a dirty trick to get a couple of votes from the masses. The government has not the slightest clue about the percentage compositions of the so called OBC/SC/ST and the so called forward classes. I am definitely FOR reservation but not at the POST-GRADUATION levels. The best that can be done is to overhaul the primary education infrastructure of the nation. Get more people to go to schools first, enforce compulsory primary education rules, financial benefits for parent's sending children to schools. Do all this to get the people who have been deprived of education for centuries. But there is a lot of OBC/SC/ST who are capable of affording education, so the reservation system should be based on socio-economical nature rather than religious or communal nature. This system is merely propaganda to the masses that are not going to get benefited by the system, the real benefits in my opinion would go to the cream of the OBC/SC/ST who are already educated or can already afford education. First there should be detailed analysis done on the population compositions, about benefits trickling down to the people who are really in need of it. Not some retired judged vacationing at the cost of the country and writing a report the way the politicians want it. Engage Gartner or Forrester to do a study first and then decide how to go ahead with the issue.
I saw a posting on an anti-reservation community on Orkut calling everyone to report a pro-reservation community as a bogus. I just don't understand how that is going to help anybody's cause. And when another person questioned this, the reply from a totally different person is freedom of expression is a birth right and that everyone can choose to report it as bogus if they wanted to. This is a really complicated situation here where the freedom to expression is used to take away somebody else's freedom of expression.
There is a Pro-reservation blog where I saw an article about how the Dalits were treated in a college, being asked to sit separately, eat separately and being treated like they didn't exist. It is the sickest thing that can happen to any country but to use this incident of discrimination done in some 3rd class college as a reason to fight for reservation is something my mind couldn't reason out.
An Anti-Congress community formed by the anti-reservation lobby. I don't have any political views but still if there is no other political party that opposes reservation it means that they are all for it. To stay quite in the midst of an issue like reservation is like supporting it. No one has the nerve to oppose it because everyone is afraid of losing votes. There is no honest political party around so why fight a party? Shouldn't people be fighting the government what ever political party they are? By being Anti-congress what is going to be achieved? Isn't the energy of the struggle getting diluted towards other things?
I got a mail calling for contributions to conduct an all India Anti-Reservation meeting and the contributions would go towards the participant's AIR TICKETS and ACCOMODATION. Anti-reservation in its current form is a cause that is definitely worth fighting for and I have a lot of respect for them for being responsible citizens, sacrificing their time, energy, money and comforts. But isn't sponsoring for the participant's air-tickets and accommodation way too much!!! It should mostly be voluntary in my opinion. Why go to such extreme hospitality measures and spend time, energy and resources on things like this which I can only classify as luxuries. Can't they come by train; can't they be accommodated by fellow friend's who are fighting for the same cause?
In the end my take on reservation, as diverse as the four cases above. I think reservation in its current form is a dirty trick to get a couple of votes from the masses. The government has not the slightest clue about the percentage compositions of the so called OBC/SC/ST and the so called forward classes. I am definitely FOR reservation but not at the POST-GRADUATION levels. The best that can be done is to overhaul the primary education infrastructure of the nation. Get more people to go to schools first, enforce compulsory primary education rules, financial benefits for parent's sending children to schools. Do all this to get the people who have been deprived of education for centuries. But there is a lot of OBC/SC/ST who are capable of affording education, so the reservation system should be based on socio-economical nature rather than religious or communal nature. This system is merely propaganda to the masses that are not going to get benefited by the system, the real benefits in my opinion would go to the cream of the OBC/SC/ST who are already educated or can already afford education. First there should be detailed analysis done on the population compositions, about benefits trickling down to the people who are really in need of it. Not some retired judged vacationing at the cost of the country and writing a report the way the politicians want it. Engage Gartner or Forrester to do a study first and then decide how to go ahead with the issue.
posted by Suraj | 1:10 AM
2 Comments:
Agree with all ur points..
I'm in favor of the "concept" of reservation. But the reality is that it doesn't reach the really needy. People who benefit are the affluent OBCs and not the really needy ones.
Eventually we end up losing merit, and not serving the needy also. In political terms reservation translates not to upliftment of the poor, but in terms of more votes in the next election
I agree with u dude...The reservations should be based on the socio-economic status of the people and not upon the caste alone.There are a lot of so called forward classes also who cnanot afford education.If the reservation system was based on socio-economic nature, even they will get beniftted and reservations would make more sense.
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