Protest against Reservations.
Malicious vote based politics has found one more victim in form of education and private employment in India. This time, Arjun Singh, HRD minister has brought up proposal for reserving seats in higher educational institutes for 27% OBC quota. After this total reservation in educational institutes would go up to 50%. With this proposal, many other unscrupulous politicians have started clamouring for similar 50% quota in private jobs also on the lines of government job. After education, i think that the bill for reservation in private jobs would also definitely come.
Reservations have never helped backward castes in a big way. It has been in place for last 60 years, hence those who availed its benefit in its start are now well placed and command access over all the necessary resources. Children of only these people are getting benefit of reservation though they do not deserve it in moral sense. When we talk about backward class, a picture is painted where we see week, frail, scantily clad people doing very strenuous works in villages and still getting reproach from higher caste. So we set aside some jobs for them. But while taking benefit of these reservations, well to do same caste people come and occupy these reserved posts without any compunctions. This is due to flawed concept of reservation based upon caste and completely ignoring economic and social status of beneficiaries. And it is also one of the reason that even after 60 years of its existence, reservations could not lift status of backward castes.
Instead of reservations, government should have tried to educate all people with more efforts towards people belonging to backward castes. It could have been through the provision of schools, scholarships, trainings, NGOs etc. After getting education, people would have to compete with each other to get desired higher education and jobs. Hence there would be enough incentive to gain more and more knowledge & competency. That would be their proper development in real sense. Bring them to the level playing field and thereafer let them compete. It would have been such a boost to their self respect. Other general castes also would not have any grudges because nobody would be denying them anything. All admissions and selections would have been on merit.
But instead of it, successive governments used reservation as an instrument to garner votes. They never wanted these backward people to become educated and thus would demand their rights and caste their votes in right manner. Our politicians took out Reservation Candy and told them that see this is what we have done for you. Backward caste could not understand the flaw and supported it. But at the time of tasting the Candy, a few "elite in backward" caste comes out from the crowd and gulp down the complete candy. The poor remain standing there for the next candy to come unknown to the fact that even that next candy would be eaten away by "elite backwards".
Apart from above, reservations literally damages the concept of merit. Candidates who score much more still can not make it but SC/ST/OBC candidates easily gets into with much less numbers. How can you reward the meritorious in this way ? How much frustrating it would have been ? Even after getting job, general category candidates see much less capable persons from SC/ST/OBC quota working with them and getting faster promotions. How it would have been felt ? General category people are treated just like Jews in Germany at the time of their holocaust.
As if this was not much that now malicious politicians like Arjun Singh are proposing quota for OBCs in higher education and other goons asking for 50% quota in private job sector. Private sector in India has recently bloomed and now providing most of the employment. But the criterion of selection is Merit only. UPA government is now asking them to select 50% people on the basis of caste. This would run havoc in our nascent private sector. After globalisation, most of the companies depend upon foriegn companies either directly or indirectly. All contracts are awarded on the basis of competitiveness. By forcing private companies to lower their standards for 50% of their employees, government is taking away their competitiveness. I think that if such thing happens, foriegn companies would stop giving their contracts to indian companies and would shift to other countries. Indian companies also like IT,BPO etc would shift campuses to neighbouring countries where there are no such retrogressive laws. At the end, it would be the loss of Indian Economy. All the infrastructure would crumble down and our country would become a like a pauper it has been during last century.
This would be a loss to every body who is living in India. Even SC/ST/OBCs also would not be able to find employment. At this time when Indian Economy is largely seen as the fastest growing economy, this step is most unfortunate and most deplorable.
Therefore, i urge all people here to organise themselves and show their protest against this. This is the only way through which we can save our county from this vote mogering politicians who do not think of anything but votes.
I opened this yahoo group solely for the purpose of co-ordinating the efforts of people who want to protest against this.
Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/noreservation/
All are welcome to join this group.
Reservations have never helped backward castes in a big way. It has been in place for last 60 years, hence those who availed its benefit in its start are now well placed and command access over all the necessary resources. Children of only these people are getting benefit of reservation though they do not deserve it in moral sense. When we talk about backward class, a picture is painted where we see week, frail, scantily clad people doing very strenuous works in villages and still getting reproach from higher caste. So we set aside some jobs for them. But while taking benefit of these reservations, well to do same caste people come and occupy these reserved posts without any compunctions. This is due to flawed concept of reservation based upon caste and completely ignoring economic and social status of beneficiaries. And it is also one of the reason that even after 60 years of its existence, reservations could not lift status of backward castes.
Instead of reservations, government should have tried to educate all people with more efforts towards people belonging to backward castes. It could have been through the provision of schools, scholarships, trainings, NGOs etc. After getting education, people would have to compete with each other to get desired higher education and jobs. Hence there would be enough incentive to gain more and more knowledge & competency. That would be their proper development in real sense. Bring them to the level playing field and thereafer let them compete. It would have been such a boost to their self respect. Other general castes also would not have any grudges because nobody would be denying them anything. All admissions and selections would have been on merit.
But instead of it, successive governments used reservation as an instrument to garner votes. They never wanted these backward people to become educated and thus would demand their rights and caste their votes in right manner. Our politicians took out Reservation Candy and told them that see this is what we have done for you. Backward caste could not understand the flaw and supported it. But at the time of tasting the Candy, a few "elite in backward" caste comes out from the crowd and gulp down the complete candy. The poor remain standing there for the next candy to come unknown to the fact that even that next candy would be eaten away by "elite backwards".
Apart from above, reservations literally damages the concept of merit. Candidates who score much more still can not make it but SC/ST/OBC candidates easily gets into with much less numbers. How can you reward the meritorious in this way ? How much frustrating it would have been ? Even after getting job, general category candidates see much less capable persons from SC/ST/OBC quota working with them and getting faster promotions. How it would have been felt ? General category people are treated just like Jews in Germany at the time of their holocaust.
As if this was not much that now malicious politicians like Arjun Singh are proposing quota for OBCs in higher education and other goons asking for 50% quota in private job sector. Private sector in India has recently bloomed and now providing most of the employment. But the criterion of selection is Merit only. UPA government is now asking them to select 50% people on the basis of caste. This would run havoc in our nascent private sector. After globalisation, most of the companies depend upon foriegn companies either directly or indirectly. All contracts are awarded on the basis of competitiveness. By forcing private companies to lower their standards for 50% of their employees, government is taking away their competitiveness. I think that if such thing happens, foriegn companies would stop giving their contracts to indian companies and would shift to other countries. Indian companies also like IT,BPO etc would shift campuses to neighbouring countries where there are no such retrogressive laws. At the end, it would be the loss of Indian Economy. All the infrastructure would crumble down and our country would become a like a pauper it has been during last century.
This would be a loss to every body who is living in India. Even SC/ST/OBCs also would not be able to find employment. At this time when Indian Economy is largely seen as the fastest growing economy, this step is most unfortunate and most deplorable.
Therefore, i urge all people here to organise themselves and show their protest against this. This is the only way through which we can save our county from this vote mogering politicians who do not think of anything but votes.
I opened this yahoo group solely for the purpose of co-ordinating the efforts of people who want to protest against this.
Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/noreservation/
All are welcome to join this group.
posted by Bedevilled at 1:24 PM
