Was watching a political program (The Big Fight) about reservations in educational institutions to backword communities. Let me explain it like a mother. When your baby trying to put small steps, do you stop her and tell her no baby, you can not walk. You are so small. I will carry you instead. Does any mother say this? No!!Because mother knows that by doing this she will harm her baby instead of helping it.
Let us say your school going kid is competing in running race along with some other kids, who may be the offspring of let us say national level champions. Do you tell your child or the teacher that your child can not compete with these kids as they are privileged and let the finish line for your child be moved backwords? How ridiculous is sounds ? Doesn't it?
That is how you pro-reservation people talk. One of the panelists is saying in his village of OBCs, every house has a gun. And in the neighbouring village of upper castes, every house has a computer. How does reservation help this situation? Maximum, these people will carry the gun to IIM?
One more personal incidence. After I finished my +2 exams, I stood first to the college. But when engineering seats were announced 6 of my classmates got a seat. I did not. My bad luck is I was born in brahmin family. How will economically poor upper caste students feel when they don't get a seat, their parents can not buy one, and a classmate how has got 20% less marks gets a seat. Remember self immolations of mandal era?
And how do these people do their duty. Our college kannada lecturer (got the job because of reservation) used to say the meaning of surya(sun) is chandra(moon).
Now supreme court has accepted reservation to OBCs. But politicians are not happy with that. They don't want the exclusion of reservation for creamy layers. A son or daughter of minister or MLA can always pay donation for his seat. Why does he need a reservation snatching it from some poor student?
My opinion is give some reservations to economically poor students no matter what caste or religion they belong to, give some reservations to rural students as they will not have many opportunities and that is all.
Let us say your school going kid is competing in running race along with some other kids, who may be the offspring of let us say national level champions. Do you tell your child or the teacher that your child can not compete with these kids as they are privileged and let the finish line for your child be moved backwords? How ridiculous is sounds ? Doesn't it?
That is how you pro-reservation people talk. One of the panelists is saying in his village of OBCs, every house has a gun. And in the neighbouring village of upper castes, every house has a computer. How does reservation help this situation? Maximum, these people will carry the gun to IIM?
One more personal incidence. After I finished my +2 exams, I stood first to the college. But when engineering seats were announced 6 of my classmates got a seat. I did not. My bad luck is I was born in brahmin family. How will economically poor upper caste students feel when they don't get a seat, their parents can not buy one, and a classmate how has got 20% less marks gets a seat. Remember self immolations of mandal era?
And how do these people do their duty. Our college kannada lecturer (got the job because of reservation) used to say the meaning of surya(sun) is chandra(moon).
Now supreme court has accepted reservation to OBCs. But politicians are not happy with that. They don't want the exclusion of reservation for creamy layers. A son or daughter of minister or MLA can always pay donation for his seat. Why does he need a reservation snatching it from some poor student?
My opinion is give some reservations to economically poor students no matter what caste or religion they belong to, give some reservations to rural students as they will not have many opportunities and that is all.
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