Those benefiting from reservation are behaving like it is their birth right. It is their short cut to progress and they are being supported by group of politicians across partyline belonging to those caste in name of backwardness.
( Posted: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 13:43 )
Ganesh
People of lower castes had to go through lot of hardships and face obstacles back in the days when they were being actively discriminated against. So it is understandable that there is a need to help them to catch up. But is this really going to help them? If the government really wanted to help them then wouldn't it be working on making school education cheap and efficient so that poor people (who often happen to be from lower caste )can get quality education for their kids giving them a shot at good life? Also, if a family is rich then irrespective of what caste they belong to, they can get by without any special reservations. If a family is poor, then irrespective of their caste, they find it hard to move up the economic ladder because the primary education in India is soo expensive. So why not truly try to achieve "garibi hatao" rather than this sham that is just for scoring political points? Wouldn't it be great if these lower caste people could actually be made aware of the fact that this law doesn't help them at all and is just a politician's way to show their fake concern?
( Posted: Monday , April 28, 2008 at 12:25 )
varsha prabhu
the government should restrict all the reserved candidates viz. SC/ST/OBC/BC etc from applying under general quota.The meritorious apply in the general category and the rest of them under quota.This way they are benefited in all ways.Seems like there is no value for merit these days.Just shell out Rs.1000/- and you become a reserved candidate over-night.I beleive there should be reservation for the general category rather than the SC/ST/BC/OBC.
( Posted: Monday , April 14, 2008 at 19:23 )
SHEHLA MASOOD
The country will become a caste divided society permanently.reswrvation has deivived the country econmically.RESERVATION IS NOT THE SOLUTION FOR THE SOCIAL JUSTICE.We should have more IIT's and IIM's with the infrastructure,they are facing a crunch. the real challenge is quality education which is lacking.
( Posted: Monday , April 14, 2008 at 00:14 )
sanjaya
One simple question. The OBCs in the blog are telling that they are very meritorious. Then why are they begging for quotas?
( Posted: Saturday , April 12, 2008 at 11:53 )
Nikhil
It is really a sad decision, and will continue to remain as a black-mark for the nation in the years to come..No political party is going to raise a finger against this menace of reservation. After all why should they tamper their votebank? They will be more than obliged to accept and support such a decision, which effectively is a means boosting their chances in the forthcoming elections. But with the most respected Supreme Court, ruling out a decision, which mandates 27% OBC reservation, which adds up to the existing 22% SC/ST reservations in India's premier educational institutions like the IITs and the IIMs.., they are effectively shutting their doors on 50% of the meritorious students, who by pure stroke of (un)luck did not happen to be born as an OBC or an SC or an ST .. What fault did these students do? Can anyone explain? The Supreme Court Officials or the politicians are not going lose anything, infact they may gain something... But it is not just these students who are going to lose.. It is India, the nation is going to lose.., these talents who are not getting the oppurtunities,which they actually deserve to get, but are snatched from them by the so-called Caste-system.. Is this the 'Equality' clause that is mentioned in our constitution? The exclusion of the so-called 'Creamy-Layer'from the OBC reservation, supposed to be based on the economic status of the people hardly makes any difference to this picture. The main reason , being the fact that, it is virtually impossible to measure the exact income or the sources of income of an individual in a country like India. Thus I really dont understand what they imply by this 'Creamy Layer' concept... Thus on the whole, we are growing into a nation, where everyone prays to be born in a backward caste. Strange, isnt it? What can we call this phenomenon?? 'REVERSE-Racism', probably???
( Posted: Friday , April 11, 2008 at 15:14 )
chendil kumar
Students from South indian states have a major role in the development of the IT juggernaut.Reservation given to OBC"s for the past thirty years in the three southern states is directly responsible for the burgeoning number of engineers we have produced,the benefits of reservation are trickling down and benefiting all castes, even castes who traditionally avoid government or private sevice.
we have seen the case of tamilnadu in the common entrance test for engg. the cutoff mark for general category is 97-98%, the cutoff marks for OBC s is 94-95%. How does reservation impact upon merit? how is a obc student scoring 95% inferior to a gen category student scoring 98%?
The argument against reservation that we see in this column are mostly emphasising that with reservation mediocrity will creep in. however practice has shown that it is not true since the cutoff marks for OBCs have always been only marginally lower than the open category.
There is a greater danger in the implementaion of 27%. Vested interests may contrive to fill up the 27% of seats with OBC students with marks high enough to qualify for the general category thus ensuring that OBCs are not considered for the general category thus reserving 73% quota for forward communities. be warned this has already taken place in UPSC in 1993.
( Posted: Friday , April 11, 2008 at 11:25 )
my dear Einstein say OBC guys have cutoff of 95% and general has cutoff of 98% then isn't the general guy getting 97 % better then the OBC guy getting 95% but he doesn't get admission ... what happens to him ? that's the catch .. hope u did not pass primary school through reservation and do understand the mathematics.
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rajesh
if obcs are so much meritorious then they do not need quota.quota is a constitutional backdoor.meritorious students donot need quota.it is a great fallacy -if you seek reservation then how do you claim that you are meritorious and if you are meritorious why you stand in the que to demand reservation,after all general category seats are not upper caste seats,those are meant for all.so why the obcs of india fear to have open competition?after all rules of competition should be same for all irrespective of social status,barmuda cannot claim separate rules in cricket and there cannot be separate rules for australians.accordind to the present norms if a candidate cannot come into general category marks barrier,only then he or she is considered in the reserved category,so there is no need to argue that reserve categories are meritorious(!!!).resource is the problem not the caste,idividual suffers not the caste.
( Posted: Friday , April 11, 2008 at 11:20 )
Shriram
NON-OBC students (thats what OC/FC/General have become) will soon need a quota reservation bill for themselves if the situation proceeds in the direction it is.
( Posted: Friday , April 11, 2008 at 11:00 )
vinay pandey
Lets put Cota aside for a few mins. Has Government done any survey ever about financial status of obc caste are of general ctegory people where they were at 100 years ago and say 500 or 200 years ago. So why when Politician shouts about exploitation of certain caste by upper caste people from thousand of years. Had Any type of serious research ever done if done then what are those results . Because Caste as european say naver exixted in Indian context/ Varana was what people should say about other communities i.e, brahmin or shudra and at most time it was changable and most importantly these so caled obc were the compartively richer people then say brahmins . They enjoyed there share of advantages. A comparative study is must for truths shake and for history to be written earnestly. As for the Sc judgement it is a right way forward if politician didn`t poke their nose in it to change its real saying; which Be sure hey will try to do by giving all sorts of wrong facts and distorted history .
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